Sentence examples of "quelques centaines" in French
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 milliers de personnes étaient sans emploi.
Hundreds of thousands of people were out of work.
À strictement parler, le chinois est composé de centaines de dialectes.
Strictly speaking, Chinese consists of hundreds of dialects.
Des centaines de gens se marient qui ne se sont connus l'un l'autre que quelques jours ou quelques semaines.
Hundreds of people marry each year who have known each other only a few days or weeks.
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.
Des centaines de personnes attendaient devant le point de vente de tickets.
Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office.
Des centaines de personnes s'affairaient dans les rues.
There were hundreds of people milling about in the streets.
Le parallèle avec l'anglais est encore plus frappant quand nous prenons conscience que le latin a continué à être usité durant encore plusieurs centaines d'années en tant que la première "langue internationale" au monde.
The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
Des centaines de soldats mangèrent en silence autour de leurs feux de camp.
Hundreds of soldiers ate in silence around their campfires.
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