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Example sentences for "many hundreds"

  • Many hundreds of persons attended a steeplechase meeting at East Dereham.

  • A brig was launched from Cattermoul's yard at Thorpe, near Norwich, in the presence of many hundreds of spectators.

  • Many hundreds of rabbits perished in the Thetford and Brandon districts through being out in search of food and unable to find their burrows again.

  • Dikes of all lengths up to at least thirty miles, and of all widths up to many hundreds of feet, are known, but they are generally less than a mile long and not more than a few feet or rods wide.

  • Many hundreds of species of animal fossils have been described from Cambrian strata, and a great many others yet remain to be discovered.

  • I shot a great many as they hung from the rafters, and the negroes having mounted with ladders to the roof outside, routed out from beneath the caves many hundreds of them, including young broods.

  • The baskets, which were on a high table, were entirely covered with ants, many hundreds of whom were employed in snipping the dry leaves which served as lining.

  • The older inhabitants of the place remember the time when many hundreds of these captives were brought down by a single expedition.

  • Where every culvert needs its picket and every bridge its company, the guardianship of many hundreds of miles of rail is no light matter.

  • Surrounded at Scheepers Nek by many hundreds of riflemen in a difficult country, there was no alternative but a surrender, and so sharp and sudden was the Boer advance that the whole action was over in a very short time.

  • George Fox says, 'many hundreds of people were convinced by the words and labours of this young minister.

  • It is a journey of many hundreds of miles, and through wild, mountainous country.

  • Many hundreds of the public visited the grave in the afternoon.

  • The response was of the best kind; it was common for remote stockmen to present themselves to the recruiting officers after an overland journey of many hundreds of miles.

  • The enterprise, financially, was a losing one for the great firm which organized and operated it, the entire expense exceeding the receipts by many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • Many hundreds of years they remained the happiest race on earth, always victorious in battle, and never suffering for food.

  • Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.

  • Numida cristata (Chickra), in bevies of many hundreds, range throughout the lower country.

  • There I was, many hundreds of miles from my family; I left my wife sick, and I began to ask myself does “number thirteen” portend anything in particular?

  • The collection consisted of many hundreds of skins, tusks, heads and skeletons of nearly every species of African animal, including numerous rare specimens never before exhibited on this continent.

  • Thus, the evacuations of the Cochin-China patients were found to contain such multitudes of the worms that their numbers could only be adequately estimated at so many hundreds of thousands passed in twenty-four hours.

  • Many hundreds of correspondents, not having ready access to the systematic writings of Rudolphi, Diesing, and Dujardin, have requested me to identify their “finds.

  • Their presence is limited to the cæcum and colon, but they are so abundant in this situation that their numbers may be estimated by many hundreds.

  • Well, many hundreds of years ago, the founder of the Habsburg dynasty, Count Rudolph, was born in a very ancient and formidable castle in the northern part of Switzerland, somewhere near Zurich.

  • But in dry winters they are enabled to obtain the necessary sand from these vetas; and it was to this particular spot that, to the number of many hundreds, the geese were evidently resorting at this period.

  • Many hundreds of Jews of mixed marriages were forced to undergo sterilisation; some, by using bribery or appealing to patriotic physicians, were able to arrange sham operations or get certificates of exemption.

  • The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.

  • The ghost, in consequence, played its antics every night, to the great amusement of many hundreds of people, and the great perplexity of a still greater number.

  • Have the teachings of the Bible retained their life for many hundreds of years?

  • In times of famine bread has sometimes been sold at many hundreds of dollars for one single loaf.

  • This coal is simply a portion of a tree which grew many, many hundreds or thousands of years ago, and which, in some great convulsion of nature, was buried deep under the surface of the earth in what we now call coal mines.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deep river; dilute nitric; many believed; many branches; many dangers; many days; many dialects; many insects; many ladies; many leagues; many libraries; many lives; many members; many miles; many millions; many pages; many physicians; many readers; many servants; many ways; many were; many wives; many works; three hundred and forty; total exports; wholesale prices