Example sentences of "[adv] a few million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 2 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only a few million people , Doctor . ’ |
| 4 | Poverty kept everything depressed including the birthrate , so that the planet held only a few million people , mostly low-tech agricultural . |
| 5 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 6 | Yeah well there 's qu there 's quite a few million people actually who do . |