Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 35 | 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 ’ . |
| 36 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 37 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 38 | ‘ A few miles of convent floor to polish , a few million sheets to hem . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 43 | 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 ) . |
| 44 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's only a few million people , Doctor . ’ |
| 52 | Poverty kept everything depressed including the birthrate , so that the planet held only a few million people , mostly low-tech agricultural . |
| 53 | Yeah well there 's qu there 's quite a few million people actually who do . |
| 54 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 55 | 18 Ross argued that an asset 's average long-term return is dependent on its sensitivity to unanticipated changes in a few economic variables . |
| 56 | So is this just with a few major accounts or |
| 57 | Only a few major groups survived into the Carboniferous , but they can still be locally abundant . |
| 58 | While the criteria apply to around 260 companies throughout Europe , Jeffrey Knight , special adviser to the Federation , says that it hopes to start the Eurolist early next year with a few major companies and then expand it rapidly . |
| 59 | There are a few major gaps , however , such as the Duke of Sutherland 's Titians , which no amount of string-pulling could unloosen ; Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ and his ‘ Venus ’ in Dresden , which is in a ruinous state , and his ‘ Three philosophers ’ in Vienna , which the Kunsthistorisches Museum , after some hesitation , decided not to lend . |
| 60 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |