Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a few [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cheque for a few thousand or something , that would have but it were n't . |
| 2 | In May the National Executive decided to give official recognition to Advance which , since its foundation in December 1935 , had risen from a local circulation of a few hundred to a sale of 15,000 reaching the entire membership of the League . |
| 3 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 4 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 5 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 6 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 7 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 10 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 11 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 12 | ‘ But I can do an ad for a few thousand , then show them the sales figures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 16 | A local newspaper in Sussex recently published a reader 's letter complaining that Darwin 's evolution theory is still taught in schools and colleges instead of creation , despite ‘ scientific evidence limiting the age of the Earth and Universe to a few thousand years ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 10 trillion cells that make up each one of us are the product of a few dozens of generations of cell doublings . |
| 23 | It was told to ‘ verify ’ the Angolan peace process with a few hundred unarmed observers , and given neither the instructions nor the resources to disarm the fighters . |
| 24 | The nuclear explosive process that would obliterate a city involved a reaction taking place in a few hundred shakes . |
| 25 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 26 | The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares . |
| 27 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 28 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 29 | Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases . |
| 30 | 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 . |