Example sentences of "from a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 2 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
| 3 | The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man . |
| 4 | Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . |
| 5 | The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares . |
| 6 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
| 7 | Tribes vary in size from a few hundred individuals to many thousands of warriors . |
| 8 | Apart from a few hundred feet just below the summit , the climbing was straightforward , yet at 21,400ft provided useful acclimatization and fleeting views through swirling clouds towards other , less accessible peaks . |
| 9 | Essentially , however , a muscle is composed of a number of long fibres , each measuring from a few hundred µm in diameter . |
| 10 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 11 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 12 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 13 | Flatbed plotters range in price from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Newman believes that in Britain these quasi-governmental and quasi-non-governmental bodies , estimates of which have ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand , depending on definitions , are not ‘ structurally integral to corporatism ’ but a significant domestic phenomenon which reinforces corporatist tendencies . |
| 15 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 16 | Who , apart from a few latter-day Edwardians , is interested in a windbag with a funny beard , who wrote ( at great length ) about socialism , and whose ( long ) plays are comedies of ill-manners , featuring semi-melodramatic characters from a forgotten age ? |
| 17 | Far removed from a few simple flowers and greenery , this is an elaborate screen covered with flower petals stuck into clay to form a picture . |
| 18 | Apart from a few Labour competitors , he was the best Leader of the House that I have seen , certainly in a Conservative Government . |
| 19 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 20 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |
| 21 | The earliest beakers were small , and , apart from a few early hunt scenes , all the figures on the larger examples came into fashion in the third century . |
| 22 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 23 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 24 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 25 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed , from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second . |
| 28 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 29 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 30 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |