Sentences with phrase «several hundred»

In early August 2014, several hundred young Catholics from across the British Isles gathered for five days at The Woldingham School in Surrey.
There are, of course, important differences between several hundred House races, spread across the country, and a presidential campaign.
Analysis by multiple methods covered several hundred pages with insights packed like sardines in a tin, yet could not, in the end, fully account for the church.
For example, it was several hundred years before all parts of the Church accepted the Epistle to the Hebrews, and other areas of Christendom did not accept the Letter of James or the Book of Revelation for over 400 years.
He devoted several hundred words to the better - off - dead delta smelt in his ambitiously titled Politics According to the Bible, which contains a sixty - six page chapter on the environment that was distributed to all at the Cornwall event.
The German petition was similarly signed by several hundred gentile German notables in every walk of life, including most of Germany's Nobel Prize winners.
Similar arrangements had been made through earlier centuries dating from the expulsion of the Moors (Muslims) and Jews from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent escalation of the Inquisition (started in 1478), which persisted for several hundred years.
Several hundred years ago «scientific evidence» supported the idea that the earth was flat and that the earth was the center of the universe.
According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.
Having gleaned same insights during my own years of ministry and in counseling both male and female clergy, I can offer some tentative deductions from the new and scant data on women in the clergy and from my own files on the personal and professional concerns of several hundred clergy of both sexes.
This book does not contain every letter C. S. Lewis wrote, but several hundred of them.
Last Saturday our small group ventured to downtown San Diego to an area where several hundred homeless people live on the sidewalk, in the shadow of the ballpark.
He has published several hundred articles and over thirty books.
He oversees several hundred missionaries in 30 countries.
But, since you made this cartoon and it was shared several hundred times, how do you say that not everything Jesus is said to have said is not his.
I had a librarian at Talbot School of Theology research this for several months, and it appears to be a mistaken quotation that dates back several hundred years to a Latin commentary on the Talmud.
After several hundred years and lots and lots of dying (because God's law was really strict and people could not read so they probably easily forgot portions of the instructions and they were born sinners by nature anyway and probably could not help it because they did not yet have the Holy Spirit who could enable them to fulfill God's requirements), God fulfilled the promise through a bunch of people who just happened to be born in Abraham's lineage.
The American Academy of Religion attracts more than ten thousand to its annual meetings, and several hundred doctoral degrees in religious studies are awarded every year in the United States.
As a student worker and an apologist I think we can safely add another several hundred evangelistic talks and Bible studies on the crucifixion.
You probably haven't an inkling of history for the past several hundred years, or even of the past few decades.
My uncle wrote out a check to Shorty for taking us charter fishing, and the bill came to several hundred dollars.
It emerged slowly over several hundred years, but it has now become critical.
Our monitoring of several hundred urban schools under the pressures of racial change has made one thing very clear: while the elements of failure are depressingly similar from school to school, those of success are unique.
The delay forced him to rush out after his address, skipping a planned visit with several hundred supporters who had gathered outside the chapel, unable to get in to the invite - only event.
According to Amnesty International, several hundred schoolgirls - both Christian and Muslim - between the ages of 16 and 18 were abducted at gunpoint on April 14 from their rooms at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, where they had been sleeping.
Finally, several hundred thousand years ago, our direct human ancestors appeared and began to spread out over the face of the earth.
On the basis of these messages a religious community developed, claiming to serve God, numbering some thousands in Muhammad's lifetime, and now having several hundred million members.
Their brain is divided in regions with different coordinated functions, and it is composed of several hundred thousands of nerve cells (the honey bee has about 800,000).
Just because someone who wasn't there said that several hundred people were doesn't make it true.
At Ohio University a marriage survey of several hundred couples was made.
Is it reasonable to assume that such a man would write to the Christians at Corinth and quote as witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus several hundred people who were still living at the time?
She organized several hundred families who refused to resettle in the far away area provided by the government.
With the assistance of a grant, I visited dozens of rapidly growing churches associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Calvary Chapel and Hope Chapel and interviewed several hundred clergy and lay leaders.
Several hundred of these Western Christians are working with Christian organizations aiding the 3 million Afghan refugees and the indigenous poor.
For historical evidence of the Bible, just look up in your history books about the Assyrians and Babylonians taking over Israel several hundred years BCE, or that the Romans were in power during the time of Jesus, that they did use crucifixion as a form of execution.
The irony is I own several hundred books on religious theology yet you think I know nothing about it or didn't look far enough.
Several hundred years later, a descendant of Agag, Haman, tried to have the entire Jewish people exterminated (see the book of Esther).
Orthodoxy is a word, however, which no dictionary can define, there being several hundred meanings, depending upon which communion one is a member of.
«Several hundred» people would have been in the tower block at the time, according to the leader of Kensington and Chelsea Borough Nick Paget - Brown.
With over six percent of the world's population, the world's Buddhist population now includes approximately fourteen thousand people in Africa, five hundred thousand in Latin America, seventeen thousand in Oceania, three hundred fifty thousand in the Soviet Union, two hundred thousand in Europe, and two hundred thousand in North America, as well as several hundred million in South and East Asia (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987).3
He was calm and courageous, but, out of several hundred speakers, perhaps not more than two dozen followed in his prophetic path.
What Charlotte Simmons can't bring herself to reveal, author Tom Wolfe has already spelled out in several hundred pages of details that add up to a parent's worst nightmare.
Tony Blair ignored international law by supporting sanctions on Iraq even when he knew that several hundred thousand children were dying as a direct result of those sanctions.
The DNA molecule is an extremely long chain of strictly ordered subunits, a length of several hundred to several thousand of which is called a gene.
Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.
The second was an Evangelical Friends restart that offered a seeker service; it achieved Sunday morning attendance of several hundred but has had to contend with conflict and lost momentum.
No one aware of the present state of marriage can pick up and start to read a book like this without soon harboring the suspicion that something central to marriage has disappeared over the past several hundred years.
Exclusive clips from the film were also shown to the crowd of several hundred.
So Hopewell read systematically through the American and European literature on congregations and ministry of the last several decades, a survey of several hundred works that is recapitulated in this book's second chapter and its extensive notes.
In addition to works published in his lifetime, Waugh left behind several hundred pages of diaries and thousands of letters.
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