Example sentences of "few [num] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointingly for a book published in 1993 , there are few references more recent than 1991 ( and very few 1991 references at that ) . |
| 2 | He 's worth a few million pennies at the moment . |
| 3 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 4 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 5 | The company will supply a few hundred grams at a time . |
| 6 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 7 | It was a small world of heath and wood , a few hundred acres at the most , but it was a separate world as Clare describes it , for example , in The Village Minstrel : |
| 8 | We do not yet know , but here in this room one is reaching back , in a view embracing a few hundred acres at the most , through ten centuries of English life , and discerning shadowy depths beyond that again . |