Example sentences of "[art] few hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 2 | As the young boy sped off to reassure his worried employer , the two constables walked the few hundred yards from the police house to the Chequers . |
| 3 | They walked the few hundred yards to Rivington 's studio in companionable silence . |
| 4 | 91,000 people have dementia in Scotland and although many will die of other causes , vastly more will die of dementia than the few hundred dying of Aids . |
| 5 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 8 | Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something . |
| 9 | It should be remembered , however , that among the few hundred pulsars detected only a few are binary pulsars ; binary black holes may therefore form a comparably small proportion of all black holes . |
| 10 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
| 11 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
| 16 | I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , ’ it said with relish , ‘ you think you 'll forget about your precious Lucy just because you 're a few hundred miles away ? |
| 18 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 19 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 20 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 21 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 22 | And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin . |
| 23 | Chris Davies , a Parkfield director , said the library makes a profit of ‘ a few hundred thousand pounds annually ’ but its potential is ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 24 | In less than a month , LEP has produced more than 11,000 of them , compared to a few hundred detected in California . |
| 25 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 26 | After a few hundred metres the pleasure overcame the apprehension . |
| 27 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 28 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 29 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 30 | A few hundred hotheads urged their comrades to break the police roadblock and march on the Kremlin , but were dissuaded by their leaders . |