41.   The strength of the Qaida force is a matter of fluid estimation, with the numbers ranging from several hundred to a few thousand.

42.   They handed out fliers urging African-Americans to vote for Vice President Al Gore and drove hundreds to the polls.

43.   They came by the hundreds to this Roman Catholic church a half-mile west of the carnage at Columbine High School.

44.   Ransoms have ranged from hundreds to tens of millions of dollars.

45.   A monk recited prayers through a loudspeaker in a continuous drone, then he broke off to remind the throng of hundreds to vote.

46.   Anti-separatists in Ottawa flocked by the hundreds to a public meeting Tuesday, shouting for David Levine to resign from his new job as head of Civic Hospital.

47.   But most events, it appeared, were attended by a few hundred to a few thousand people.

48.   Estimates of its armed strength vary from a few hundred to a few thousand guerrillas.

49.   Fines range from several hundred to several thousand dollars.

50.   For example, new drugs are tested on only several hundred to several thousand people, meaning side effects thought rare can crop up when millions use the pills.