Example sentences of "only [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved . |
| 2 | Only the few three-year-old trout in the river and the salmon disappeared temporarily — but were back again within three months . |
| 3 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 4 | The peasantry and the labourers had no voice at all , and only the few remaining Polish gentry had any representation in the upper house of the electoral college . |
| 5 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 6 | Again , though , it is the acquisition of stratified techniques in which , at the highest level , only the few are competent . |
| 7 | Only the few recognize this moment . |
| 8 | He had spoken in so low a tone that only the few near to them had heard him . |
| 9 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 10 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 11 | Interpretation of iconography , the historical context of works , or personal information about sitters for portraits are only a few of the varied topics which can be spelt out in catalogues . |
| 12 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 13 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 14 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 15 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 16 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 17 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
| 18 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 19 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 20 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 22 | Only a few groups responded to our earlier notice , and one or two sent an order directly to Lisson Grove ( at the highest price ) . |
| 23 | The headache was the Leyland Class 155 , withdrawn after only a few months with doors that jammed open . |
| 24 | The above examples are only a few of those showing how conventional ports de bras can be changed . |
| 25 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 26 | On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them . |
| 27 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 28 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 29 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 30 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |