Example sentences of "few [num] [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
4 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
5 | It was a small world of heath and wood , a few hundred acres at the most , but it was a separate world as Clare describes it , for example , in The Village Minstrel : |
6 | 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 . |