Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 2 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 3 | Here the men who streamed into the new ‘ self-improvement ’ associations ( Bildungsvereine ) in the 1860s — there were 1,000 such clubs in 1863 , no less than 2,000 in Bavaria alone by 1872 — rapidly drifted away from the middle-class liberalism of these bodies , though perhaps not sufficiently from the middle-class culture they inculcated . |
| 4 | Of course , in many cases this rigidity is perfectly justified — the notion that the Moon is in fact a vast spaceship placed in Earth-orbit millions of years ago by visiting extraterrestrials has , shall we say , little in its favour . |
| 5 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |