Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] several hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what was said in Chapter 4 , the reader will appreciate that there could be several hundred variates and , of course , in the case of a census , n might be of the order of millions . |
| 2 | It could be two or three inches , it could be several hundred feet . |
| 3 | This experiment uses a pair of old-type telephone handsets to set up a two-way analogue communication link over copper wires between two points which may be several hundred metres apart . |
| 4 | In a large computer there may be several hundred control gates in the processor , so it would be uneconomic to have a bit for each gate in the micro-instruction . |
| 5 | Thus , if the investment is defined as the initial margin , the variance of the resulting returns will be several hundred times larger than if the spot price is used as the investment . |