Example sentences of "[noun] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 3 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 4 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 5 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 6 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 7 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 8 | As she had passed her driving test only a couple of months before , she was very cautious when the shiny new vehicle arrived , delivered on Christmas Eve . |
| 9 | The presbytery of Hamilton 's proposed solution was a repeal of the nineteen sixty three act and a reversion to the nineteen thirty three act which required from parents only a profession of faith . |
| 10 | The young emerge from their mother 's birth canal only a month after conception . |
| 11 | In its place only a sense of duty and a wish to be of help to the people she had come to love kept Shelley from despair . |
| 12 | In the period before Edward V 's deposition only a handful of references to his household survive , but all the men named were former servants of Edward IV . |
| 13 | In the period before Edward V 's deposition only a handful of references to his household survive , but all the men named were former servants of Edward IV . |
| 14 | Although at the moment only a handful of agencies have planning departments , planning is a fast-growing area in advertising and not only advertising-management consultants are beginning to recognise the importance of the planner in many aspects of commerce . |
| 15 | Since the Second World War only a minority of women work full-time in their own homes . |
| 16 | The band had signed with a new label Compulsion only a matter of weeks after being cut by Phonogram , and their new album ‘ The Buffalo Skinners ’ is arguably their best since the ‘ The Crossing ’ . |
| 17 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 18 | Optimism over the re-election prospects of the Conservative party , widespread among stockbrokers and fund managers only a couple of weeks ago , has ebbed away and there is now more active consideration of other possible outcomes . |
| 19 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 20 | Although microchips give machines only a smidgen of intelligence , that can go a long way when sensibly applied by human masters . |
| 21 | In due course the details of the recovery filtered back and we learned that the tern had been ringed as a fledgling in a colony in southern Sweden only a couple of weeks earlier . |
| 22 | I 'd knitted the back with no problems only a couple of days before . |
| 23 | In the UK only a handful of county emergency planning departments ( Cumbria , for instance ) have built up resource databases in digital form and this needs to be promoted . |
| 24 | And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them . |
| 25 | How could he be so polite when he had been fired by passion only a couple of hours before ? |
| 26 | And why had Puddephat 's wife suddenly borrowed the keys to the flat in rue Roland only a couple of months before he was murdered there ? |
| 27 | It did the work of a person in a factory occupation such as loading sacks onto a pallet , but then that person cost only an average of £1300 per annum to employ . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 29 | He won the Championship in September 1991 , but received his invitation only a couple of months ago . |
| 30 | Too late , from the very top of his eyes , he saw the prone body laying in the gutter begin to move , and the black muzzle of the gun only a matter of inches from his face . |