Example sentences of "[verb] a few [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 2 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 3 | London and Liverpool continued to build flats and from 1933 ( when the Act became widely operative ) many cities built a few hundred flats in large estates : by 1939 Newcastle had built 500 , Leeds nearly 1,000 , Liverpool over 5,000 and Manchester 9,000 ( Ravetz , 1974a ) . |
| 4 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 5 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
| 6 | AS I SAT , gazing out of the Boeing 737 window watching the beautiful Norwegian countryside passing a few thousand feet below , my thoughts cam back to the reason for my visit . |
| 7 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 8 | Yes , well if I can do a few two ounces worth I put them all together and then Adam can give her a little bit . |
| 9 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Yet all houses , even new ones , have defects — some cosmetic , costing a few hundred pounds to make good , others more serious and costly . |
| 11 | Er they say they 're not worked hard well I think they have they 've moved er moved a few thousand tons from there and erm . |
| 12 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 13 | I breathed again , and decided to walk a few hundred yards down the road to a Happy Diner for a rapid sandwich and a cup of tea . |
| 14 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 15 | But a lot of people buy a second hand car privately , and there are pages of these in the Nottingham Evening Post every day you know where people are paying a few hundred pounds , or it may be a few thousand pounds , for a second hand car . |
| 16 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 17 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 18 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 19 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 20 | I had mixed feelings then because the last time one had been that close on the ground was in 1940 during the Battle when one passed over my head at Allington , crashing a few hundred yards away . |
| 21 | He said McPherson had stopped a few hundred yards on , gone to the boot of his car , returned and suggested they go back to Tarbert . |
| 22 | They expected a few dozen requests , but boxes were eventually sited at 100 farms and two years on experts are thrilled with the results . |
| 23 | He expected a few dozen people . |
| 24 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 25 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 26 | By the following Tuesday , Geraldine Hogan , whose family lived a few hundred yards from the lake , was spitting up blood . |
| 27 | Christine Mills lived a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | ‘ No , you 're supposed to abandon Masquerade just so I can earn a few thousand dollars . ’ |
| 29 | You know a few thousand people see my slides over the years , but you know , nobody would ever guess I need to lose weight anyway . |
| 30 | On the telephone , they used rhyming slang in case they were overheard ; at the celebrations , the fine crystal glass and good company belied the hazards of patrolling a few dozen miles away . |