Example sentences of "[verb] more than a few [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 2 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 3 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 4 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 5 | On no occasion did the number of protesters reach more than a few hundred . |