Example sentences of "a few [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's only a few million people , Doctor . ’ |
| 2 | Poverty kept everything depressed including the birthrate , so that the planet held only a few million people , mostly low-tech agricultural . |
| 3 | Yeah well there 's qu there 's quite a few million people actually who do . |
| 4 | Then a man with more than a few hairy £10 notes sticking out of his ears said , " We 'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . |
| 5 | But such ecosystems are often open , in that they require heavy inputs of nutrients and energy to maintain populations and productivity of a few selected species of plants and animals . |
| 6 | Think of ‘ narrowcasting ’ as the opposite to ‘ broadcasting ’ — reaching a few selected people as opposed to a mass audience . |
| 7 | After a slow first hour I started to get a few better fish , roach and skimmers . |
| 8 | No matter where you are , there are always a few black sheep . |
| 9 | The troops , expecting to be ‘ home by Christmas ’ after a few gallant cavalry charges , held an impressive open air church parade in the Recreation Field and in late August the town gave a lively send off to a detachment of the ‘ Kings Own ’ . |
| 10 | Erm we have quite a few helpful people within the sport , but we could do with a lot more friends . |
| 11 | For bond stretches involving heavy atoms , where hω e is of the order of a few hundred cm -1 , hχ e may be of the order of 1 cm -1 or less . |
| 12 | The shepherd spends a solitary summer with a couple of dogs , a few hundred sheep and goats , sleeping in a tiny wooden cabin . |
| 13 | Our brains are probably equipped by nature to assess the risks of things happening to ourselves , or to a few hundred people in the small circle of villages within drum-range that our tribal ancestors could expect to hear news about . |
| 14 | ‘ You cope with organising a party for a few hundred people , and you 're scared ? ’ he said in disbelief . |
| 15 | This information can be obtained for areas as small as an Enumeration District ( a few hundred people ) . |
| 16 | We 'd go out on the town , hit a few cocktail parties , go dancing , and I 'd drop a few hundred quid on a weekend . ’ |
| 17 | Even if it costs us a few hundred quid , it 's been worth it . |
| 18 | A few hundred quid was smashing . |
| 19 | — a few hundred quid a year — what right have Tory Members to talk about pensioners who must get by on about £56 a week ? |
| 20 | you 're only talking about a co you know , a few hundred quid for that . |
| 21 | I suppose yeah but you , you , sometimes you get the hole wears does n't it were the er blade is and all this business so you get a great wadge of wood jamming in there but er , I could do spending a few hundred quid on tools , but what can you do ? |
| 22 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 23 | There are a few similar species , known rarely from rocks of Cretaceous and Tertiary age , distinguished on the branching patterns of the fronds . |
| 24 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 25 | A few elderly people , as they get older and more disabled , join the households of younger kin . |
| 26 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |
| 27 | ONCE again we 've had to witness the horrifying sight of Christmas carnage on the roads because a few stupid people fly in the face of common sense and drive like lunatics whatever the conditions . |
| 28 | A few horticultural staff have published articles in the horticultural press , but none have written books on horticultural techniques , plant groups or management practices . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for Mosley , although the economic crisis worsened in 1931 , bringing about the fall of the deeply divided Labour government , it was replaced by a National Coalition made up of Conservatives , the majority of the Liberals and a few Labour MPs under Macdonald , Snowdon and Thomas . |
| 30 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |