Below you will find example sentences with "few hundred". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Few Hundred in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: hundred
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 29
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "few hundred" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after a few hundred, but a few hundred fighters are, thousand, years and feet stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with few years, few weeks, few months, hundred years, two hundred and four hundred, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with few hundred
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
We played a few bigger concerts with a few hundred people over there. (13 words)
He’s only spent a few hundred million so far, only a few hundred million. (15 words)
The goal posts could be from a few hundred feet apart to a few miles. (15 words)
When a few cases of the virus cropped up at Canterbury in mid-March, the state had only a few hundred test kits available, limiting officials’ ability to figure out how far it had spread, according to Dr. Danny Avula, the local county’s health official. (46 words)
A few moments later, a gleaming white Airbus with its tail covered in the company’s distinctive brown logo soared overhead just a few hundred feet up, its wing flaps cranked all the way down and its motionless landing gear hanging like talons. (43 words)
Tax experts are of the opinion that the refund amounts this year could shrink by a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on a taxpayer’s situation, something similar to the refunds seen in 2019 or 2020. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
He’s only spent a few hundred million so far, only a few hundred million.
Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.
The researchers also calculated that the Tesla's first close encounter with Earth won't be until 2091, when it should come to within a couple hundred thousand miles (a few hundred thousand kilometers) of its home planet.
A brief outline is formed after placing approximately one hundred points, and detail begins to appear after a few hundred.
The first few hundred feet were up and down, as before, but by the time three hundred ft had been covered, the machine was under much better control.
The quantity of oil spilled during accidents has ranged from a few hundred tons to several hundred thousand tons (e.
This worked well with a system with a few hundred kilobytes of storage and perhaps a hundred files, but as the systems grew into megabytes and thousands of files, the performance degraded rapidly.
Kits to wind back odometers on cars can be bought easily online, with prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.
Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of a few tens to a few hundred loosely gravitationally bound to one another.
Tax experts are of the opinion that the refund amounts this year could shrink by a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on a taxpayer’s situation, something similar to the refunds seen in 2019 or 2020.
We played a few bigger concerts with a few hundred people over there.
A few moments later, a gleaming white Airbus with its tail covered in the company’s distinctive brown logo soared overhead just a few hundred feet up, its wing flaps cranked all the way down and its motionless landing gear hanging like talons.
More than a few hundred people were missing from the informative meeting held by the Baca Fire Department on March 11. Superbly well-organized and even entertaining, the few hours on a Saturday morning passed quickly.
When a few cases of the virus cropped up at Canterbury in mid-March, the state had only a few hundred test kits available, limiting officials’ ability to figure out how far it had spread, according to Dr. Danny Avula, the local county’s health official.
The caliphate has been reduced to a few dozen tents in the village of Baghouz, but a few hundred fighters are holding an unknown number of civilians and refusing to surrender.
Church records showed that the treasurer was elected in January 1994, the year that the submitted missionary funds dropped from a few thousand to a few hundred dollars some years, and with several years showing zero funds submitted.
It is anticipated that in the next few years some long distance slurry pipelines will be constructed in Australia and South America where mineral deposits are often a few hundred kilometers away from shipping ports.
More recent work suggests that Halley will evaporate, or split in two, within the next few tens of thousands of years, or will be ejected from the Solar System within a few hundred thousand years.
Open clusters generally survive for a few hundred million years, with the most massive ones surviving for a few billion years.
The goal posts could be from a few hundred feet apart to a few miles.