Example sentences of "[prep] [det] hundreds [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 2 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 3 | The waters described by Boswell flow powerfully beneath deep banks reached after a walk of some hundreds of yards from the B886 north of Fairy Bridge . |
| 4 | On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish . |
| 5 | These are just two out of many hundreds of cases in which the police have used hypnosis to refresh the memories of witnesses and victims of crime . |
| 6 | They have the experience of many hundreds of competitions to call upon . |
| 7 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 8 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 9 | Mass mortality of amphibians has been observed in Draycott cave in Somerset ( Table 1.1 ) , where the remains of many hundreds of individuals are preserved in a clay deposit that is normally wet all year . |
| 10 | Instead , the separation occurs much later when the embryo is made up already of many hundreds of cells . |
| 11 | Depending on the assumptions applied this process could lead to the subduction of several hundreds of kilometres of continental crust ; more likely , however , is rather more limited subduction , but even this could involve the complete consumption of peninsulas and microcontinents . |
| 12 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 13 | It is thus not surprising that the archaeological record infers a continuous or near-continuous occupation of the area for many hundreds of generations . ’ |
| 14 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 15 | It is a good idea to tell children that all these have been domesticated for many hundreds of years in the service of man , for meat , milk , hide , skins , wool and eggs . |
| 16 | Because the nests are in such orderly rows , scientists at the Museum of Paleontology at Drumheller , Alberta , believe that the same species of dinosaur returned to the site to give birth each year for many hundreds of years . |
| 17 | The issues I will be discussing are ones that have engaged philosophers for many hundreds of years and on which a vast literature has accumulated . |
| 18 | For the first time for many hundreds of years both countries are able to feed themselves . |
| 19 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 20 | That progress was now direly slow , with many hundreds of cattle to herd , however expert some of the herders . |
| 21 | Every leaf of every book was turned — and this in a quiet , studious family with many hundreds of books . |
| 22 | We share our roof-space from April to September with several hundreds of pipistrelles , one of five different species occurring in Scotland , which your writer carelessly lumps together as ‘ the appalling British bat ’ . |
| 23 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 24 | Now I find that I ca n't get all the data held in those hundreds of files . |
| 25 | All humans may well have a place on the genealogy which begins with Adam ; but the point where , say , the French line diverges from the Libyan line is likely to some hundreds of generations above the present adult men of Libya and France . |
| 26 | One particular family in Cotherstone must be able to claim the longest aggregate of service to the Fields , amounting to some hundreds of years . |
| 27 | To many hundreds of birdwatchers the name conjures up either the anticipation or satisfaction of excellent birding , or memories of the abject miseries of seasickness on the three-hour crossing . |
| 28 | Other strings have anything from seven to many hundreds of micro-fibres which are then twisted together in a way similar to natural gut . |
| 29 | And , if we do , there are no external reasons why the average lifespan of all human beings should not be extended to many hundreds of years . |
| 30 | Within the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick there existed Boston House in the Manor of Boston , with a varied history over many hundreds of years ; also Gunnersbury House — the name Gunnersbury is believed to be derived from Gunilda or Gunyld , a niece of King Canute , who had a house or castle there — which led to the Manor of that area being called ‘ Gunnersbury ’ by the seventeenth century . |