Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 2 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 3 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 4 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 5 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 6 | He wanted $4500 for the job — once he had seen what it entailed — whereas because of the limited budget everyone else was on scale , amounting to a few hundred dollars . |
| 7 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 8 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 9 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 10 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 11 | The decay of the transient absorption was monitored over a few hundred microseconds , following a 30 ns photolysis flash [ 25 ] . |
| 12 | The first machines looked at a few dozen positions a second ; the more recent , 1200–1500 a second . |
| 13 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 14 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 15 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 16 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 17 | There were three major ones , standing within a few hundred yards of each other . |
| 18 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 19 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 20 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 21 | In the thorax and abdomen , for example , the nervous system consists of a chain of paired ‘ ganglia ’ each composed of a few thousand cells . |
| 22 | They 're tempted by a few hundred pounds to go to places such as Amsterdam where cheap and plentiful crugs can be bought and brought back to Britain . |