Example sentences of "a few [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , take out David Attenborough , still fondly remembered in his early television days standing knee-deep in the bat-droppings of centuries , and a few hundred assorted enthusiasts , and this country , given the chance , would go solidly anti-bat . |
| 2 | These days are coming to an end now that he is 40 — his birthday was celebrated recently by his family and a few hundred close friends in the style of This Is Your Life at his local club . |
| 3 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 4 | One rabbit can finish off a few hundred young trees in no time . " |
| 5 | The blast wave of a supernova is capable of ionising , or even sweeping clear , the neutral gas from a region as large as a few hundred light years across . |
| 6 | So , give or take a couple of centuries and a few hundred light years , I 'm home . |
| 7 | They claim 10,000 members , but if campaign finance forms are any indication , a few hundred hard-core activists is a more accurate estimate . |
| 8 | It was told to ‘ verify ’ the Angolan peace process with a few hundred unarmed observers , and given neither the instructions nor the resources to disarm the fighters . |
| 9 | The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares . |
| 10 | ‘ You and a few thousand other women . |
| 11 | It is a terrifying condemnation of the universal franchise that the nation 's government is determined by a few thousand self-satisfied oafs who ca n't tell a general election from the Eurovision Song Contest . |
| 12 | ‘ If we have plenty of top Aussies playing , we should get a few thousand London-based Australians coming to the games and the chances are they 'll bring an English mate , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 14 | Had a few thousand peacekeeping troops been sent there as a sign of outside concern , that war just might have been avoided . |
| 15 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 16 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |
| 17 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 18 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're right , Doctor , ’ Lacuna was saying , ‘ but there are only a few dozen complete personalities that make up the gestalt . |
| 20 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |