Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 2 | He said McPherson had stopped a few hundred yards on , gone to the boot of his car , returned and suggested they go back to Tarbert . |
| 3 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 4 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 5 | But I 'm spun of stronger metal than that : when you 've spent a few thousand years wrestling with magicians determined to enslave you and entire religions devoted to your destruction , you develop ways of bouncing back . |