Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 2 | They closed the old door behind them and there I was , alone with a few dozen stiffs . |
| 3 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 4 | In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings . |
| 5 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 6 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 7 | Others , for example the cormorants , gulls and terns , are more coast-bound , feeding offshore in winter but mainly in shallow coastal waters in summer ; they breed in smaller colonies , usually of a few dozen pairs close to good feeding grounds . |
| 8 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 9 | But Bouncer , a rare white German Shepherd dog , has been stolen , probably to order and probably worth a few hundred pounds to an unscrupulous dealer . |
| 10 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 11 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 12 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 13 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 14 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 15 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 16 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 17 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 18 | Apart from a few hundred feet just below the summit , the climbing was straightforward , yet at 21,400ft provided useful acclimatization and fleeting views through swirling clouds towards other , less accessible peaks . |