Example sentences of "hundreds of [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have had literally hundreds of letters and calls this week from people wanting to register but they ca n't now , of course , because they are too late . ’ |
| 2 | Even so , you may find yourself writing hundreds of letters and sending out hundreds of c.v.s on the offchance of a response . |
| 3 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 4 | It was the first , the very first , inch of achievement , she realised , out of all the hundreds of metres that lay ahead : the look on Hoomey 's face . |
| 5 | The hundreds of businesses that have grown with the help of the $200 billion-plus market for high-risk , high-yield securities created by Drexel do not share the American public 's jubilation over the investment bank 's demise , which came after paying a $650m fine on six counts of mail and securities fraud . |
| 6 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 7 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 8 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 9 | There are now literally hundreds of companies that specialise in bathroom suites and furniture , ranging from expensive , intricate designs to the cheaper , but still attractive suites . |
| 10 | Emptying hundreds of bins and walking about 20 miles . |
| 11 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 12 | It seems certain to blacken miles of pristine coastline , kill hundreds of birds and wreck lucrative shellfish grounds . |
| 13 | The £10 million development will create hundreds of jobs and boost Teesside as a tourist centre . |
| 14 | The mining industry has predicted that the ban will have dire economic consequences , forcing the loss of hundreds of jobs and forcing investors to sink funds into overseas mining ventures . |
| 15 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 16 | He said they had conducted hundreds of interviews and concluded that the charges were ‘ either concocted or imagined . ’ |
| 17 | This should prevent incidents where trailers are blown for hundreds of yards and wrecked . |
| 18 | Among the hundreds of churches that suffered attack during the 1640s , particularly badly affected were the parish churches of Shrivenham in Oxfordshire , Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire , and Harley 's own church at Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire . |
| 19 | The shelves of the amateur home porn section are packed with hundreds of tapes that aim to satisfy every sexual desire . |
| 20 | In summary , what we term the ‘ third generation ’ of swept wings , are those with the myriad gimmicks and fancy names among the hundreds of stunters that emerged so quickly when common availability of carbon tubes made the rigid frame possible . |
| 21 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |