Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] hundreds " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 2 | They 're helping hundreds of children with special needs … and hopefully learning something about themselves in return . |
| 3 | We 're devoting hundreds of man hours at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds and of course neglecting other lines of enquiry . |
| 4 | That is despite the fact that I am paying hundreds of pounds a year for the privilege of a so-called collection service . |
| 5 | Now safety experts are targetting hundreds of companies to prevent accidents and deaths in the workplace . |
| 6 | And in the Republic , it is being alleged that imports of building materials from Northern Ireland are threatening hundreds of jobs in the southern border counties . |
| 7 | And in the Republic , it is being alleged that imports of building materials from Northern Ireland are threatening hundreds of jobs in the southern border counties . |
| 8 | They seemed to be dropping hundreds of metres , unfolding their wings , then rising with the air currents into the upper atmosphere . |
| 9 | They 'll be storing hundreds of vehicles at the site and using the 700 acres for military exercise . |
| 10 | Teams of government and state scientists are collecting hundreds of soil samples each week . |
| 11 | Scientists have been studying hundreds of asthma sufferers to see if there 's a family link . |
| 12 | " I frequently pleaded with the federated owners to make peace with Wilson and many were inclined to do so , but the weight of prejudice clung to the Federation as a whole and the Executive Committee refused to recognise him , although we were wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fighting him " . |
| 13 | If you were ordering hundreds and hundreds of these would you put , express them through a parcel delivery service ? |
| 14 | He said that petro-chemical plants with little or no pollution controls were releasing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste into the atmosphere every year . |
| 15 | The Association of British Travel Agents said its members were moving hundreds of British tourists to safety in Orlando . |
| 16 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 17 | At a time when copper coinage had already been in use for some centuries at the heart of the Han empire , wealthy leaders of the tien community in the southern province of Yunnan were storing hundreds of thousands of cowries in the great bronze drums which were a prominent feature of the Dong-Son culture focussed on northern Indo-China . |
| 18 | Axil , which introduced other Sparc compatibles earlier on , says in has been shipping hundreds of units a month and is on the verge of moving to a thousand . |
| 19 | Here , aerial photography taken under drought conditions during the summer months is revealing hundreds of square miles of ploughed out prehistoric ( and later ) landscapes which survive below soil level , but which are only evident as marks in the growing crops . |
| 20 | Uncle Sam is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to 11 Native American tribes to consider the siting of Monitored Retrievable Storage facilities — dry stores — on their land . |
| 21 | One Sun OEM reports he 's getting hundreds of 36MHz Viking-based Sparcstation 10 Model 30s and one 40MHz Model 41 : he expects the latter to remain scarce for awhile . |
| 22 | Two remaining directors , Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat , are backing hundreds of Falkirk fans who are demanding that the Deans sell their shares in the club — but all four have agreed that Falkirk-born Christie , a Bairns fan , is the man for the chairman 's job . |
| 23 | Customs sources say that raves held just over the border are attracting hundreds of teenagers from all over Ulster — and drug dealers . |
| 24 | Hannas was shifting hundreds of Irish titles , from publishers both in the UK and Ireland : Great Gold Courses of Ireland ( Gill & Macmillan ) , High Rollers of the Turf ( Sporting Books ) , History of Ulster ( Blackstaff ) and Lifelines ( Town House ) , a collection of letters from famous people about their favourite poems , edited by Seamus Heaney and conceived by schoolchildren for charity . |