Example sentences of "is [adv] [art] few [num] [noun] " 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 Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds .
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