Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland .
2 As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes .
3 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 .
4 The 10 trillion cells that make up each one of us are the product of a few dozens of generations of cell doublings .
5 But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States .
6 Again we have an increasing speed but , equally important , a decreasing cost per bit , and therefore a capacity increase from a few tens of words to several million characters of main storage .
7 in 1843 , according to which the depths of the ocean beyond a few hundreds of metres were devoid of life .
8 Most species are a few centimetres to a few tens of centimetres long .
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