Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 2 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 3 | ‘ Before that , they had just sent them into a studio with a few hundred pounds and the records were almost souvenirs of the live side . |
| 4 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 5 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 6 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 7 | The smart metalled road which links the new colonies to Aurobindo Marg gives out a few hundred feet before you get to the village . |
| 8 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 9 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 10 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 11 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 12 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 13 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 14 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 15 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 16 | From government statistics ( Claus Moser ) and social theory ( Ernest Gellner ) to art history ( Ernst Gombrich ) and the Freudian legacy , a few thousand men and women born in the cities of Mitteleuropa in the first quarter of this century quickened the pulse of a smug and sluggish culture . |
| 17 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 18 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 19 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 20 | But perhaps more typical of European electronics companies were those with revenues of between one billion and a few billion dollars that experienced an ‘ identity crisis ’ in the 1980S . |