Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 2 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard , for only a few high-level headmen received a salary . |
| 4 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |
| 5 | If this is making atrocities palatable for not a few concerned citizens the aftertaste is a bit too much . |
| 6 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 7 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 8 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 9 | Its bases around the Bay were staffed by a total of only a few hundred men . |
| 10 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 11 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 12 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 13 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 14 | As breeding birds Moorhens are common , occurring wherever there is water ; even ponds of only a few square yards frequently hold breeding pairs . |
| 15 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 16 | Borg , who split with 41-year-old Loredana earlier this year , is now playing tennis tournaments for the over-35s for purses of just a few thousand pounds . |
| 17 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 18 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 19 | It is thought that similar but even larger black holes , with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun , occur at the centers of quasars . |
| 20 | That method can be used to distances of about a hundred light years . |
| 21 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 22 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 23 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 24 | Decca is offering a more modest Mozart sampler of about a dozen compact discs . |
| 25 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 26 | Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain . |
| 27 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the ‘ Ultimate ’ Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
| 28 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 , do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the Ultimate Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
| 29 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |
| 30 | The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners . |