Example sentences of "[was/were] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 2 | At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves . |
| 3 | We were only a metre from the only road , but the number of cars that passed was easily beaten by the number of coffees drunk . |
| 4 | Even if it were only a dozen , they could with megaton bombs inflict widespread devastation . |
| 5 | Such were only a few of the multitude of his accomplishments . |
| 6 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 7 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 8 | There were only a few old women in the office . |
| 9 | Mr Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , made clear that the sanctions were only a first step , to be followed if necessary by a ban on oil exports , source of 95 per cent of Col Gaddafi 's revenue . |
| 10 | He was afraid ; there were only a few people left where he was and not much food . |
| 11 | Moving was no problem , as the houses were only a few streets apart . |
| 12 | Profits were good but , as usual , the Westons were only a few precarious steps in front of the authorities . |
| 13 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 14 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 15 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 16 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 17 | All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score . |
| 18 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 19 | One by one they had slipped out until now there were only a few still clinging to the broomstick . |
| 20 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |
| 21 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 22 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |
| 23 | Glaciers or vast sheets of ice were moving slowly across the lowlands , just 20 000 years ago , at a time when there were only a few primitive humans living in caves in southern Britain . |
| 24 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 25 | Apart from that possibility and the final pension , there were only a few other possibilities of organizational reward . |
| 26 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 27 | Fortunately , Gerald found an office job , with a national charity , and his symptoms were only a slight inconvenience . |
| 28 | But they were only a fraction ahead of the rest of the side , who always gave the ball carrier excellent support , |
| 29 | By 1840 Poles were almost entirely absent from the lists of Danzig merchants , were only a small minority on the list of Danzig house-owners , and were thus almost totally excluded from public life and government of the city . |
| 30 | There were only a few Poles in the city and they all spoke German . |