Example sentences of "hundreds [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they eat and drink the best , and when the voyage is done , it 's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of pence in their pockets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 4 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | HOW do you cope with training when your staff are scattered hundreds of miles apart across 140 different locations ? |
| 7 | I T happened hundreds of miles apart in different countries , but the desired aim of striking fear into the minds of law-abiding citizens was achieved in each case . |
| 8 | And in Scotland , too ; hundreds of miles away from everyone she knew . |
| 9 | ‘ He is many hundreds of miles away from his family and likes to go home and see his mother and father , who are elderly , ’ said Mr Ripman . |
| 10 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 22 | The Kennel Club have also drawn up a code of ethics covering the sale of dogs in an attempt to control the so-called ‘ puppy farmers ’ who produce hundreds of animals purely for profit , and they offer a Canine Code , freely available to owners . |