Example sentences of "hundreds of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London is , as well , the main place for entertainment , hundreds of cinemas especially in the ‘ West End ’ , costing a fortune of around twenty-five pounds . |
| 2 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 3 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On one occasion I was present when , due to the exigencies of war , a Kachin from eastern Burma fetched up hundreds of miles away in a Kachin village in eastern Assam . |
| 6 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 7 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 8 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 9 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 10 | After fifteen minutes on the Metro to Nevski Prospect I was met by a teeming downpour , heavy enough to keep me holed up under cover until ten minutes before the performance was due to start , and with the hall some hundreds of yards away along a back-street . |
| 11 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 12 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 13 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |