Example sentences of "[art] few [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 2 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 3 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 4 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 5 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 6 | As Pavel stepped out onto the asphalt , he could see the take off of a Cathay Pacific 747 through the chainlink and across a few hundred feet of grass ; it seemed shockingly , dangerously close , and he turned his face away to look toward the main building . |
| 7 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 8 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 9 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 10 | ‘ Beyond this tower there is a garden laid out in the French style — some herb banks , a small rabbit warren , and a few hundred bushes of boxwood . ’ |
| 11 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 12 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 13 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 14 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 15 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
| 16 | The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed , from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second . |
| 17 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |