Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] only [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 2 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 3 | The final decision was taken at the end of October , with victory only a few days away , and was announced with the publication of a letter from Lloyd George to Bonar Law , a letter actually drafted by Law as a summary of their agreement . |
| 4 | But the measurements show that these differences are small , for example only a few Kelvin at the tropopause . |
| 5 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 6 | BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) . |
| 7 | Showers were not compulsory and in fact only a few boys took advantage of this facility . |
| 8 | Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds . |
| 9 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
| 10 | A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit . |
| 11 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 12 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |
| 13 | In Britain , popular and media objections to the State paying for all the repairs to the fabric of Windsor castle , severely damaged by fire only a few days before the Hofburg , continued into December . |