Example sentences of "a few [num] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Davies , a Parkfield director , said the library makes a profit of ‘ a few hundred thousand pounds annually ’ but its potential is ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 2 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 3 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 4 | Life may indeed have been nasty , brutal and short a few hundred thousand years ago , but there are those who claim that at least the shortness was a benefit in comparison with modern human existence . |
| 5 | The non-exclusive deal , for a few hundred thousand dollars , gives Convex design rights to Dolphin 's three year old chip-independent SCI technology . |
| 6 | Because of this , the final cost of Shell 's reduced stake may be only a few hundred million pounds . |
| 7 | In a comparatively short period — a few hundred million years or so — the Earth cooled down , and by this time , because of the gases belched out by its numerous volcanoes , it had an atmosphere . |
| 8 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 9 | In Phanerozoic time ( the time which has elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian ) there have been three such ice ages , separated by intervals of a few hundred million years when the world enjoyed a more equable climate and lacked extensive polar ice caps . |
| 10 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 11 | If the seismically peculiar D ’ layer at the base of the mantle is the source of plumes , as some geophysicists now suspect ( for example , ref. 10 ) , its volume is such that the present plume flux would exhaust it in a few hundred million years , implying that proto-plume material is quickly cycled through the layer . |
| 12 | If NT hits , the Sunnyvale , California company believes it will be doing a few hundred million dollars worth of business in three to five years . |
| 13 | The future fate of the Universe is not one of humanity 's more pressing problems : on this scale nothing drastic is likely to happen for a few hundred billion years yet . |
| 14 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |