Example sentences of "a few [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 2 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 3 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 4 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 5 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 6 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 7 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 8 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 9 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 10 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 11 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotels group , has awarded a £5 million contract to Tarmac Construction to carry out the work after buying the site 's freehold from Edinburgh District Council for ‘ a few million pounds ’ . |
| 12 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 13 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 14 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 17 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 18 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 19 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 20 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 23 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 24 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 25 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 26 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 27 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 28 | A large symphony orchestra is even more instructive , since for some works there may be a few hundred musicians on stage playing together . |
| 29 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
| 30 | Now the USSR catches only a few hundred belugas each year , not only because of enforced catch limits , but because these impressive creatures just are no longer there to be caught in such numbers . |