Example sentences of "[adj] few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturers , knowing that an extra few hundred pounds on the price will not be any deterrent , load their cars with all manner of profitable goodies from ten-speaker hi-fi systems to turbo engine-chargers . |
| 2 | And so you can really consider that your first year 's cost is not just the cost of the computer but it 's also this extra few hundred pounds for your maintenance contract . |
| 3 | After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway . |
| 4 | Not so confident is Nigel Beard ( Erith & Crayford ) , an ICI manager who is one of precious few Labour contenders with any experience of private enterprise . |
| 5 | While there have been precious few literary models for black male writers to follow lately , there has been a boom in black women 's writing , particularly in the States , with the success of Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and now Terry Macmillan . |
| 6 | After a fair few spot-on write-ups in the last few months , now the fashion pack moved in on him . |
| 7 | He could compensate for his low official pay by means of the strings he could pull in conjunction with the other few rich peasants in the commune . |
| 8 | However , the Pacific-North American plate boundary has undergone significant changes over the past few million years with the subduction of part of the East Pacific Rise spreading ridge and the evolution of a predominantly transform margin . |
| 9 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 10 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |