Example sentences of "up [prep] a few [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 2 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 3 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 4 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 5 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 6 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |