Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 2 | Another company holds an annual senior managers ' conference attended by only a few select top executives at which fundamental issues are discussed . |
| 3 | He was used on only a few favoured bitches , but his influence is still undeniable , his potency incredible . |
| 4 | There was nothing unpleasant in his scrutiny , no hint of lechery or desire , yet she felt deeply uncomfortable standing there before him , clad in only a few minute scraps of cloth . |
| 5 | Cocoa cultivation spread so quickly around the world that all the crops derived from only a few wild ancestors , so that modern cultivated varieties suffer from a lack of genetic variation . |
| 6 | The loch is very weedy and fishing restricted to only a few clear patches ; but there are some super trout to be had , deep bodied and golden in colour . |
| 7 | The big Victorian offices and panelled boardrooms once occupied by executives from British Shipbuilders , the state-owned company , are now mostly empty , populated by only a few tough and profit-driven executives from the Norwegian owners . |
| 8 | Different centres of excellence will usually offer courses in their own specialism ; you may find you have to work away from home on secondment if your first choice is limited to only a few specialist centres . |
| 9 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , extensive filming of craftspeople at work in the visitor centre was cut to only a few short extracts , plus an interview with Chairman and Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell , because of intensive coverage of the disastrous Windsor Castle fire . |
| 11 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 12 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 13 | The future socialist society , he explained , would be one in which state planning would be retained in only a few essential sectors , but which would otherwise rely upon market forces . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After the revival in 1688 , the Kilwinning papingo shoot continued with only a few brief interruptions through the 18th and into the 19th century . |
| 16 | The amazing variety of metal artefacts in the ancient world was created with only a few different metals : copper , tin , lead , silver , gold , iron , arsenic and zinc . |
| 17 | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane . |