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Dictionary translations for "quelques centaines"

quelques centaines f pl noun

a few hundred (groupe nominal, quantité)

Contexts with "quelques centaines"

L'idée selon laquelle lire rend myope a été populaire pendant quelques centaines d'années. The idea that reading makes you short-sighted has been popular for a couple of hundred years.

Des centaines de champs ont été submergés par l'inondation. Hundreds of fields were submerged in the flood.

L'entreprise a annoncé des centaines de mises à pied. The company announced hundreds of layoffs.

Le Sphinx avait mangé des centaines de personnes en route pour la ville de Thèbes, parce qu'ils ne purent répondre à l'énigme astucieuse que le Sphinx leurs demandait. The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.

J'aimerais pouvoir écrire des centaines de phrases sur le site de Tatoeba, mais j'ai d'autres choses à faire. I would love to write hundreds of sentences on Tatoeba, but I've got things to do.

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