Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 2 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 3 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 6 | Walruses and bearded seals , the two largest species , feed mainly on the sea bed , diving in shallow waters to depths of a few hundred metres , using their vibrissae to hunt in the mud for molluscs and crustaceans . |
| 7 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 8 | Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases . |
| 9 | For bond stretches involving heavy atoms , where hω e is of the order of a few hundred cm -1 , hχ e may be of the order of 1 cm -1 or less . |
| 10 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 11 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 12 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 13 | The service has been a life line to Jeff Lockyer , he now has debts of a few hundred pounds , which compared to a couple of years ago , is an enormous weight off his mind . |
| 14 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 15 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 16 | This again implies some limitation on the quantitative measurement of style , for within the limited compass of a few hundred words , little statistical significance can be attached to the frequency of this or that feature . |
| 17 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 18 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
| 19 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 20 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 21 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 22 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 23 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You cope with organising a party for a few hundred people , and you 're scared ? ’ he said in disbelief . |
| 25 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 26 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
| 27 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 28 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 29 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 30 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |