Example sentences of "is [adv] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 3 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 4 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 5 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 6 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |
| 7 | Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds . |
| 8 | What survives , outside MGM 's archives , of the sequence in which Astaire and Charisse separately rehearse at the barre , is just a few black-and-white stills . |
| 9 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |