Example sentences of "[art] few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 2 | As the young boy sped off to reassure his worried employer , the two constables walked the few hundred yards from the police house to the Chequers . |
| 3 | They walked the few hundred yards to Rivington 's studio in companionable silence . |
| 4 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 5 | Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something . |
| 6 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
| 7 | For some of the people who live here this recent trade boom has meant new found wealth … and young people enjoy the fruits of industry like any of their European counterparts … on the few hundred yards of coastline yet to be swallowed up by industry . |
| 8 | Extra staff have been drafted in to take patients the few hundred yards from the hutted wards of Ormskirk Hospital which were originally built to house Canadian forces during World War II . |
| 9 | It should be remembered , however , that among the few hundred pulsars detected only a few are binary pulsars ; binary black holes may therefore form a comparably small proportion of all black holes . |
| 10 | Yes , most people pay to come to NCT classes , and excellent value they are too , for the few thousand parents we manage to teach each year . |
| 11 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |
| 12 | By 1928 the Kaszubes numbered around 110,000 , and they and the few thousand speakers of Leban dialect were the last survivors of the original Slav settlers of Pomerania . |
| 13 | The company 's 1991 figures , to be announced this month , are likely to confirm him as one of the few 1980s entrepreneurs to have come through the recession unscathed . |
| 14 | The few dozen hotels already operating CHP , I forecast , will soon be joined by hundreds more . |
| 15 | She works closely with a single A&R Manager and writes weekly reports on everything he sees and hears — which includes the few dozen tapes arriving at Elektra 's offices every week . |
| 16 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 17 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 18 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 21 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 26 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotels group , has awarded a £5 million contract to Tarmac Construction to carry out the work after buying the site 's freehold from Edinburgh District Council for ‘ a few million pounds ’ . |
| 27 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 28 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 29 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |