Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 2 | If the problem you 're confronted with is a ten thousand pound bit of influence , then it 's worth spending a few hundred pounds in a preparation . |
| 3 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 4 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 5 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
| 6 | Just a few hundred votes in the right places could swing it , and I hear there are some very nice properties available in Bristol West , for instance . |
| 7 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |