Example sentences of "[noun] only [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 2 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 3 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 4 | Unlike many other contracts , the courts have not exercised a strong influence over the framework of this relationship and the common law only imposes a few terms upon leasehold parties . |
| 5 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 6 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 7 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 8 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 9 | After a meal of meat and potato stew of which Willie only managed a few mouthfuls , Mr Fletcher returned accompanied by his two teenage sons . |
| 10 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 11 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 12 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 13 | Typically , the net contains many nodes , but each node only has a few inputs : N is quite small . |
| 14 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 15 | Very large numbers of blood cells are required — human red blood cells only last a few months — and there are few stem cells , so an enormous amplification is required . |