1.   But just between you and me and a few hundred miles, thoughts of ancient spirits still trail closely behind.

2.   Flying above the clouds, the jets would zap enemy missiles shooting upward from launching pads a few hundreds miles away, in places like Iraq or North Korea.

3.   He talked like that for four hours ... about a hundred miles a minute.

4.   A low pressure system pushing northward a few hundred miles off the middle Atlantic Coast also brought showers to parts of the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland.

5.   A weak tropical wave over Puerto Rico extends south several hundreds miles.