Below you will find example sentences with "few tens". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Few Tens in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: tens
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.2 words

Words in this phrase

few tens

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • few can mean: An indefinite, but usually small, number of. Common word
  • tens can mean: plural of ten Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

only a few tens of thousands 2× a few tens kilometers further 1× as a few tens of speculators 1× extends a few tens of metres 1× hits a few tens of homers 1× in a few tens of nanoseconds 1× of a few tens of millions 1× of a few tens of milliseconds 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a few tens 1× after the war 1× an average long 1× imagine next season 1× in these cases 1× it is used 1×

Common sentence endings:

all considered events 1× and northeastern asia 1× between the islands 1× free path length 1× hundred thousand years 1× line at convert 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

thousands 7× years 7× next 2× hundred 2× length 2× meters 2× solar 2× kilometers 2× light 2× stars 2× create 2× patterns 2×

Related phrases

few hundred few years few weeks few months few days last few few quarters past few few examples few decades

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around tens:

killed tens 5× paying tens 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

few quarters few months few moments few hundred few highlights few examples

Just after it in the phrase index:

few thousand few weeks few years fewer people fiction main fiction stories

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

few hundred few years few weeks few months few days few quarters

Same ending:

killed tens paying tens

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "few tens" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as only a few tens of thousands, a few tens kilometers further, thousands, years and next stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with few hundred, few years, few weeks, killed tens and paying tens, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with few tens

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

For an 8-bit unit, conversion takes place in a few tens of nanoseconds. (14 words)

The difference between UT0 and UT1 is on the order of a few tens of milliseconds. (16 words)

The Denisovans lived until a few tens of thousands of years ago in eastern and northeastern Asia. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

It is used because it can create extremely small patterns (down to a few tens of nanometers in size), it affords exact control over the shape and size of the objects it creates, and because it can create patterns over an entire surface cost-effectively. (45 words)

No world leader had dared to say that there are not five or six million refugees, but only a few tens of thousands, and that the flooding of Israel by people incited to murder Jews would not take place. (39 words)

An average long GRB has a bolometric flux comparable to a bright star of our galaxy despite a distance of billions of light years (compared to a few tens of light years for most visible stars). (36 words)

Question examples

You’re making $200,000 a year, and you’re going to lecture me about how it undermines the altruism to get paid a few tens of thousands of dollars for saving someone’s life? (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Imagine next season… pitches for 10 wins, hits a few tens of homers and steals a few tens of bases.

Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of a few tens to a few hundred loosely gravitationally bound to one another.

In these cases, the length scale of the aircraft ranges from a few meters to a few tens of meters, which is much larger than the mean free path length.

More recent work suggests that Halley will evaporate, or split in two, within the next few tens of thousands of years, or will be ejected from the Solar System within a few hundred thousand years.

You’re making $200,000 a year, and you’re going to lecture me about how it undermines the altruism to get paid a few tens of thousands of dollars for saving someone’s life?

After the war against Germany was declared, the French troops advanced only a few tens of kilometres deep into the German territory.

Moreover, lasting only a few tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years in duration, they’re all considered events.

No world leader had dared to say that there are not five or six million refugees, but only a few tens of thousands, and that the flooding of Israel by people incited to murder Jews would not take place.

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Property prices went up as a few tens of speculators made a killing, while leaving thousands of persons that much poorer.

The Denisovans lived until a few tens of thousands of years ago in eastern and northeastern Asia.

A few tens kilometers further north the high Himalaya abruptly rise along the Main Central Thrust fault zone above the snow line at convert.

An average long GRB has a bolometric flux comparable to a bright star of our galaxy despite a distance of billions of light years (compared to a few tens of light years for most visible stars).

For an 8-bit unit, conversion takes place in a few tens of nanoseconds.

It is used because it can create extremely small patterns (down to a few tens of nanometers in size), it affords exact control over the shape and size of the objects it creates, and because it can create patterns over an entire surface cost-effectively.

Most parabolic dunes do not reach heights higher than a few tens of metres except at their nose, where vegetation stops or slows the advance of accumulating sand.

Pleistocene marine deposits are found primarily in shallow marine basins mostly (but with important exceptions) in areas within a few tens of kilometers of the modern shoreline.

The difference between UT0 and UT1 is on the order of a few tens of milliseconds.

The electric field extends a few tens of metres into the plasma of the surrounding solar wind.

These stars are the most massive, and have the shortest lives of a few tens of millions of years.

Transport Started in 1876 and still going strong is the Sundbåt ("Sound Boat"/"Strait Crossing Boat") shuttle service with a capacity of a few tens of passengers, travelling between the islands.

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