Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 2 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
| 5 | a simple tale introducing only a few characters besides the hero and heroine is often very successful … . |
| 6 | The Soviet work described in this historic talk concentrated on high-power pinch discharges lasting only a few microseconds with currents of up to two million amps flowing between electrodes in straight tubes . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 8 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |
| 9 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 10 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 11 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 12 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 13 | Consequently there are arguments among botanists about the relationships of many plants , living and fossil , and some classifications have quite large categories containing only a few plants , which may be rare . |
| 14 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |