Example sentences of "[prep] hundreds of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Farmers ' Union proposed a licensing system to curb straw burning , after hundreds of complaints about smoke pollution at the end of the harvest . |
| 2 | After hundreds of miles of open river , the gorge seemed unreal . |
| 3 | But after hundreds of years of colonisation and settlement , of population shifts and absorption , how could it have been otherwise ? |
| 4 | After hundreds of years of embattled resistance the Dwarf city of Karak Eight Peaks falls to attack by Orcs , Goblins and Skaven . |
| 5 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |
| 6 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 7 | He went through hundreds of pounds of his mother 's money in a spending spree , buying friends extravagant gifts like computer games and going to amusement arcades . |
| 8 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 9 | After shifting through hundreds of pics of your gorgeous guys we found one that was in real need of a Hollywood make-over ! |
| 10 | Liz spent hour pouring through hundreds of issues at the Illustrated News library and was finally rewarded with the original drawing of the dress . |
| 11 | It has provided stability and created opportunities for hundreds of girls through decades of disruption . |
| 12 | With infrasound , their auditory maps could extent for hundreds of kilometres around their home . |
| 13 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |
| 14 | Thus , for hundreds of years before the formation of the first Yugoslav state in 1918 , the South Slav peoples were subjected to different forms of political and cultural pressure . |
| 15 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 16 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 17 | But there was a feeling of peace and quiet in those old towns , a silence that was almost tangible , and it was impressive to stand alone beside the fast flowing river and know that one was surrounded by deep forest for hundreds of miles in all directions . |
| 18 | The fact that seeds could be carried for hundreds of miles by strong winds allowed the supporters of dispersal to explain any case of anomalous distribution by invoking such an accidental circumstance . |
| 19 | Mr Tony Bridge , Chairman of the Governing Body proposed a toast : ‘ Napier University ’ and this was the signal for hundreds of balloons to be let loose from the parapet of Merchiston Tower . |
| 20 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 21 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |
| 22 | Born-again rockers can choose between hundreds of albums with titles like ‘ Psycho Surgery ’ , ‘ Bishop of Souls ’ and ‘ Prophet of Idiocy ’ , while family values conservatives can dance to lyrics like ‘ Thank God the world 's been saved/ Marx is in his grave ’ . |
| 23 | Individual Compact schools are likely to benefit by additions to their school allowances of hundreds of pounds towards the increased costs of Compact . |
| 24 | Attempts are continuing to set up a rescue package for a travel firm which collapsed , putting the holidays of hundreds of customers in doubt . |
| 25 | City engineers have leaked to the press their previously private warnings to the city of hundreds of signs of hazardous corrosion on four big bridges that span the East river : the Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges . |
| 26 | I looked at the file — a painstaking record of hundreds of hours of police work , inquiries , interviews , medical and forensic reports , all getting nowhere . |
| 27 | CAR giant Ford was hit yesterday by a strike of hundreds of foremen at two of its leading factories . |
| 28 | It was n't so much the cash , although there was plenty of that ; it was the security boxes that had afforded the biggest haul , the accumulated assets , in gold and precious stones , of hundreds of Americans in England . |
| 29 | I do not have the slightest doubt that in Nottingham the money is available to do whatever is necessary to keep open those old people 's homes , and so remove once and for all the worry of hundreds of residents in those homes . |
| 30 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |