Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hundred [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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1 | Zone I was in its way as much of a prison for the Commandant as for the eight hundred men to whom he played a vague mutation of God and Commissar . |
2 | They walked the few hundred yards to Rivington 's studio in companionable silence . |
3 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
4 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
5 | Carrying the suitcase in one hand and the violin in the other , she walked the two hundred yards to Chelmsford station and caught the 15.53 to London . |
6 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
7 | Horowitz then walked the last hundred yards to the decrepit villa standing back from the airport highway , pushed open the left-hand iron grille gate . |
8 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
9 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
10 | Flatbed plotters range in price from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . |
13 | Only a few hundred yards to the north-west of Thiepval is the Ulster Tower , commemorating the soldiers of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division and across the road is the Connaught Cemetery . |
14 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
15 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
16 | In the other it ran a few hundred yards to a high chain-link fence with a locked gate , and then on to another distant cluster of lights , the harbour buildings . |
17 | Tribes vary in size from a few hundred individuals to many thousands of warriors . |