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Example sentences for "several hundred"

  • In number they may vary from two or three to several hundred.

  • General peritonitis is, on the other hand, a rare complication, occurring not more than once in several hundred cases.

  • Several hundred soldiers of British regiments were gassed and the Germans, under cover of the gas cloud, raided the British trenches in an endeavour to locate and blow up certain mine shafts.

  • In some instances the units, broken up into small sections, were scattered about the country so that I would have to talk to 50 men at once instead of several hundred.

  • Then with dignity I got into the car and we drove off to the bank, leaving behind the discomfited policemen and a crowd of several hundred people.

  • Large caravans also, of several hundred camels, passed us and took up the road in such a way, that we were obliged to wait for half an hour to allow them to pass.

  • When the viceroy rides out, he is preceded by several hundred soldiers.

  • After a weary drag of several hundred yards, I came opposite to a small clump of wormwood bushes, growing out of the bank.

  • The friend now seemed resolved to do some mischief, and charged me furiously, pursuing me to a distance of several hundred yards.

  • The crowning event of the day was the reception of several hundred members of the Irish-American Republican Club of Cook County and Chicago.

  • Several hundred veterans, with their families, accompanied the General from Indianapolis, and were greeted at Clayton by five thousand people.

  • The inaugural celebration was conducted by several hundred residents of Washington, acting through committees.

  • As the President passed through the crowded streets of the city, escorted by several hundred G.

  • After attaining a height of several hundred yards, he flew forward in a horizontal course, and followed the direction of the stream.

  • Ahead of the canoe the whole river was plainly seen for a distance of several hundred yards.

  • At the end of every attitude and utterance, it would snap its bill with such violence, that the cracking of the mandibles upon each other might have been heard to the distance of several hundred yards.

  • Many other caves opening into the canyon and craters of this plateau were utilized in like manner as homes for tribal people, and in one cave far to the south a fine collection of several hundred pieces of pottery has been made.

  • Oraibi is a town of several hundred inhabitants.

  • It was currently believed that the river was lost under the rocks for several hundred miles.

  • From the study of the existing pueblos found elsewhere and from extensive study of the ruins, it seems that everywhere tribal pueblos were built of considerable dimensions, usually to give shelter to several hundred people.

  • At last her luck turned, as gamblers would say, and on one occasion she left the bank with a spoil of several hundred dollars!

  • They very soon passed us, and quietly encamped at a distance of several hundred yards.

  • I found the churches in Ohio had increased to more than a thousand members, and those in New York to several hundred.

  • As we approached the camp of the enemy General Lucas rode out to meet us with a guard of several hundred men.

  • In pursuance of the resolutions thus passed and published, a formidable banditti were soon assembled under arms, to the amount of several hundred, and rendezvoused in Daviess County.

  • Robert and Tayoga followed carefully for several hundred yards; then they were surprised to see the trail curve sharply about, and go back toward the main force.

  • His eager spirit, always impatient for action, found relief in the continuous walking, and the steady enlargement of the circle in which he traveled, acquiring soon a radius of several hundred yards.

  • They promptly spread out, the entire hundred in a half circle, covering a length of several hundred yards, and the whole force advanced swiftly.

  • He and Tayoga kept together, but the thirty were stretched over a distance of several hundred yards, and now they retreated very slowly, watching continually for the appearance of hostile warriors.

  • When, as on the Ohio, these fields sometimes have the area of several hundred acres, they often collide with the shores, especially where the stream makes a sharp bend.

  • Uniting at the equator, these produce a westerly setting current, having the width of some hundred miles and a depth of several hundred feet.

  • In most cases these wind-borne materials take on the form of dunes, or heaps of sand, varying from a few feet to several hundred feet in height.

  • Many of the fixed stars, the incomplete list of which now amounts to several hundred, are curiously variable in the amount of light which they send out to the earth.

  • Russon, the Estonian ornithologist, also observed the flight on a marsh near Kurkull, in Estonia, and noticed that the snipe rose high in the air and gradually descended again after a flight of several hundred yards.

  • They arrived in flocks from the southward, often of several hundred individuals, that whirled in and circled back and forth along the lake shore to decoy to birds feeding on the strand or to rise again and continue swiftly northward.

  • Later the older birds join them and the flocks increase in size to several hundred in favorable places.

  • A royal commission was despatched to America with three war vessels and several hundred men.

  • Berkeley sent Colonel John Washington in command of several hundred men to join the Marylanders against an Indian fort on the Potomac, but after several weeks of fighting the red men escaped.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    curious smile; free colored; little panel; rejoined the; say about; several cities; several colours; several hundred; several kinds; several members; several minutes; several other; several passages; several persons; several pieces; several places; several plants; several points; several sorts; several species; several states; several things; several thousands; several waters; several ways; she remained