Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 2 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 3 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 4 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 5 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 6 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 7 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
| 8 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 9 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said unionists had voted to send representatives to events in Hong Kong and France , but refused to spend a few hundred pounds on the bilingualism conference in Gweedore . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 15 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The first chain starts off right down in the Antarctic , a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 20 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 21 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 22 | He has just bought a neo-classical villa in Hamburg , a few hundred metres from the house where he was born . |
| 23 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 24 | Ian Charlesworth and Arthur Goddard live just a few hundred metres from the busy M40 in the village of Fencot . |
| 25 | Any gas flowing inward across the OLR will naturally be driven by the bar into the region within a few hundred parsecs of the nucleus , the region of the molecular disk . |
| 26 | The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week . |
| 27 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 28 | I breathed again , and decided to walk a few hundred yards down the road to a Happy Diner for a rapid sandwich and a cup of tea . |
| 29 | Beyond this again , a few hundred yards down the road , lay the right-hand turning to the Julian 's . |
| 30 | Ron Davies , defending pugnaciously for Labour , is campaigning a few hundred yards down the hilly main street , swept along by dozens of supporters . |