Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [det] hundred [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards .
2 Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them .
3 In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings .
4 But Bouncer , a rare white German Shepherd dog , has been stolen , probably to order and probably worth a few hundred pounds to an unscrupulous dealer .
5 These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres .
6 Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years .
7 Apart from a few hundred feet just below the summit , the climbing was straightforward , yet at 21,400ft provided useful acclimatization and fleeting views through swirling clouds towards other , less accessible peaks .
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