Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] few hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below . |
| 2 | The Valley of the Shadow of Death was the steep lane that dropped between darkly overhanging hedgerows a few hundred yards from his home , a stony track where one walked at night whistling . |
| 3 | There were defensive turrets every few hundred yards , and the whole place was like Hampstead Heath on bank holiday , with hundreds of foreign visitors mixing with hundreds of Chinese , many of them P.L.A . |
| 4 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 5 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 6 | Extra staff have been drafted in to take patients the few hundred yards from the hutted wards of Ormskirk Hospital which were originally built to house Canadian forces during World War II . |
| 7 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 8 | Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest . |
| 9 | The road from the well fortified airport at Srinagar , the state 's summer capital , to the town centre is lined with armed soldiers every few hundred yards . |