Example sentences of "[verb] be only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice . |
| 2 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 3 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 4 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 5 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |