1.   Hundreds of government troops dug up coca bushes while in adjacent fields just a shout away hundreds more peasants picked their coca bushes just as fast as they could.

2.   They dynamited and hauled away hundreds of tons of granite boulders, then spent four years building the terraces.

3.   A few weeks later, robbers shot a bank guard in suburban Makati and also carted away hundreds of thousands of pesos.

4.   As the country sank into anarchy in March, angry crowds looted state armories and carted away hundreds of thousands of weapons.

5.   Explosives experts were searching the building and police tried to keep away hundreds of bystanders crowding the scene of the blast.

6.   Police shooed away hundreds of people, but they lingered to watch from a distance.

7.   The blasts have not kept away hundreds of thousands of bargain hunters.