Example sentences of "[be] [num] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it is not only the famous who give up their time as there are hundreds of missionaries all around the world trying to help people of the same and different religions through worship to God . |
| 2 | There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe . |
| 3 | Helen said : ‘ There must be thousands of families just like ours . ’ |
| 4 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 5 | But they eat and drink the best , and when the voyage is done , it 's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of pence in their pockets . |
| 6 | It is quite clear , however , that marked deformation does in fact occur within some continental regions which are thousands of kilometres away from the nearest plate boundary . |
| 7 | A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland . |
| 8 | For Hester , the problem was compounded by the fact that she was thousands of miles away from Thomas . |