Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
2 | Whereas touristy me — town-bred and with no more knowledge of nags than a few donkey-rides sixty years ago — I rode high and proud on Suzy , a two-year-old Arab who was full of wind and nervous at moving so slowly . |
3 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
4 | In a few rings one of the carbons is replaced by an atom of oxygen , nitrogen or sulphur which can cause problems . |
5 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
6 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
7 | Also ‘ areas ’ may refer to a few kms 2 or to whole countries , so that areas or pockets of declining food production may coexist with , and have no social access to , other areas of increased food production . |
8 | She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov . |
9 | After only a few days one of the H . |
10 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
11 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
12 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
13 | Frightened now , hemmed into the confined space with no escape , they ran in unison , a few steps one way , then the other , heads thrown back above the shifting bodies , yellow eyes ablaze . |