Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 2 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 3 | Nearly all of this material was obtained by scooping the top of the surface , or by picking up small rocks up to about fist-size , or from cores a few centimetres in diameter and up to 2.4 metres deep . |
| 4 | Pulsars are compact stars a few kilometres in diameter with masses around . |
| 5 | Without going into calculations , virtually any realistic combination of antenna size and power at the feed will result in a power flux density a few metres in front of the dish of less than 10mW per square centimetre — the nationally accepted long-term human exposure level for electromagnetic radiation . |
| 6 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |
| 7 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |