Example sentences of "only a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 2 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 3 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 4 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 5 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 6 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 7 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 8 | Firing visually into the dense grey packs moving across their front on the slopes opposite , only a few thousand yards off , gunners can seldom have had so superb a target . |
| 9 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 10 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 11 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 12 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 13 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 14 | Although large-scale protest against the visit had been expected , only a few hundred demonstrators gathered outside the hotel , led by the Rev. Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionist Party MP . |
| 15 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 16 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 17 | For example , the sedimentary rocks that form the top geological layer in much of southern Britain may be only a few hundred metres thick in a few isolated sites . |
| 18 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 19 | Only a few hundred metres away , the ship was now just a bubbling silver pool . |
| 20 | Only a few hundred metres from them lay Fakrid . |
| 21 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
| 22 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 23 | The CEA 's official reports on the Itteville dump claimed radioactivity levels reached only a few hundred becquerels per cubic metre . |
| 24 | Fujitsu Ltd is preparing to plunge into the massively parallel processing market with a machine that it claims delivers 300 GFLOPS peak using ‘ only a few hundred processors ’ : on current plans , it will be the first major computer manufacturer to enter the market with its own machine rather than one bought in . |
| 25 | Now the USSR catches only a few hundred belugas each year , not only because of enforced catch limits , but because these impressive creatures just are no longer there to be caught in such numbers . |
| 26 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 27 | Laterally , that is across the grain , they separate or crush quite easily , so that the lateral tensile and compressive strengths are very low , only a few hundred pounds per square inch . |
| 28 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |
| 29 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 30 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |