Example sentences of "a few [adj] people " 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 | Think of ‘ narrowcasting ’ as the opposite to ‘ broadcasting ’ — reaching a few selected people as opposed to a mass audience . |
| 5 | Erm we have quite a few helpful people within the sport , but we could do with a lot more friends . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You cope with organising a party for a few hundred people , and you 're scared ? ’ he said in disbelief . |
| 8 | This information can be obtained for areas as small as an Enumeration District ( a few hundred people ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 10 | A few elderly people , as they get older and more disabled , join the households of younger kin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |
| 14 | The first ‘ tent cities ’ for a few thousand people have been set up in the plain near Zakho . |
| 15 | A few thousand people with secondary education , based in the civil service and the armed forces , the PDPA seized power in April 1978 and set about enforcing their view of progress . |
| 16 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 17 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 18 | Already , though , such a study of a community involving , perhaps , only a few thousand people brings in many elements , variables and causal links . |
| 19 | You know a few thousand people see my slides over the years , but you know , nobody would ever guess I need to lose weight anyway . |
| 20 | A few young people are really ‘ stuck ’ on glue or products and it may take a long time to help them . |
| 21 | Maybe the Church is n't the answer for some especially those in parishes with only a few young people , but that is why I praise the deanery day as it provides a discussion place for people of all ages , and encourages us — the Church of the future — to make the Church a more appealing and welcoming place . |
| 22 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 23 | ‘ We are no longer talking about a safety net for just a few young people ’ , said Roger Singleton , Barnardo 's senior director . |
| 24 | Besides , there are a few other people I want to tell about this . |
| 25 | They put me in touch with a few other people in nearby Sheffield and we arranged to have a tentative first meeting in someone 's flat . |
| 26 | They say it made a few other people happy as well … |
| 27 | I noticed round the edge of the hall a few other people were hovering , and wondered who they were . |
| 28 | I go to night schools and force myself to mix , but I only tend to socialise with my present or former care assistants , former Le Court friends and a few other people . |
| 29 | He and I and a few other people used to hang around together when we were students . |
| 30 | Put , can you put a heading along there , decimals , decimals , if we can get you understanding this , you can help a few other people . |