Example sentences of "[prep] a few [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes . |
| 2 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 3 | The 10 trillion cells that make up each one of us are the product of a few dozens of generations of cell doublings . |
| 4 | Another difficulty arises because , although the semiconducting diodes used in this type of circuit pass quite negligible current under reverse bias , they do drop an appreciable potential difference of a few tenths of a volt in typical operation under forward bias . |
| 5 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 6 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 7 | Again we have an increasing speed but , equally important , a decreasing cost per bit , and therefore a capacity increase from a few tens of words to several million characters of main storage . |
| 8 | in 1843 , according to which the depths of the ocean beyond a few hundreds of metres were devoid of life . |
| 9 | Most species are a few centimetres to a few tens of centimetres long . |
| 10 | To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent . |