Example sentences of "[prep] a few [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then jegs and after a few five minutes |
| 2 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 3 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 4 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 7 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 8 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 9 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 10 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 11 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 12 | Long after the demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 13 | Long after the afternoon demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 14 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |
| 15 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 16 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 17 | In the thorax and abdomen , for example , the nervous system consists of a chain of paired ‘ ganglia ’ each composed of a few thousand cells . |
| 18 | Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India . |
| 19 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 20 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 21 | It is relatively easy to prepare brain samples to examine either under the light microscope , with its maximum useful magnification of a few thousand , or the electron microscope , which can magnify by hundreds of thousands . |
| 22 | These are mosaics from pictures taken at ranges of a few thousand km . |
| 23 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 24 | For example , UK-based W Industries , have created a strap-on virtual reality system , available at a price of a few thousand pounds , that enables the wearer to walk through 3-D worlds . |
| 25 | For example , in all but small companies a project of a few thousand pounds would probably be approved by a senior manager , whereas a multi-million pound project will probably require board approval . |
| 26 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 27 | A wide variety of jobs are undertaken , ranging from 100,000 copy reprints of dictionaries , to specialized runs of a few hundreds . |
| 28 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 29 | There were scuffles outside the Rossiya Hotel , where the ‘ Russian Citizens ’ Conference ’ was being held , as a mob of a few hundred tried to prevent delegates entering . |
| 30 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |