Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 2 | She would lie , steal , cheat for Oliver : burning a few hundred pounds was chicken feed . |
| 3 | A few hundred metres were overrun but at heavy cost in life . |
| 4 | But a few hundred enthusiasts were all that was needed to make these dirty little flying mice a protected species , free to flit and , well , leave droppings , wherever it takes their fancy under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 5 | Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present . |
| 6 | Therefore , the nine bogie cars and a few four wheelers were transferred to Sutton and worked the Mitcham line from there . |
| 7 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |