Example sentences of "[v-ing] a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet all houses , even new ones , have defects — some cosmetic , costing a few hundred pounds to make good , others more serious and costly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We do not yet know , but here in this room one is reaching back , in a view embracing a few hundred acres at the most , through ten centuries of English life , and discerning shadowy depths beyond that again . |
| 10 | Sharpe and Harper trotted northwards , staying a few hundred yards ahead of the advancing French . |
| 11 | If the problem you 're confronted with is a ten thousand pound bit of influence , then it 's worth spending a few hundred pounds in a preparation . |
| 12 | Ron Davies , defending pugnaciously for Labour , is campaigning a few hundred yards down the hilly main street , swept along by dozens of supporters . |
| 13 | Having started in films by putting a few thousand pounds into a short religious picture in 1933 , he went on to form British National , a production company , in association with Lady Yule , the wealthy widow of a Calcutta jute merchant . |
| 14 | Given the choice , she 'd really rather have had an assignment in Outer Mongolia or possibly Timbuktu — maybe by putting a few thousand miles between herself and Dane she 'd manage to get him out of her mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She would lie , steal , cheat for Oliver : burning a few hundred pounds was chicken feed . |