Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 2 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 3 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 4 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 5 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 6 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 7 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 8 | It is one of only a few products that can run text round an irregular object , although there are restrictions to this . |
| 9 | They are one of only a few companies to offer stair carpeting in a choice of stocked ranges . |
| 10 | In more recent years , Whessoe has laid off a number of men , and moved into more specialist fields , but it is still one of only a few companies listed on the Stock Exchange to have its headquarters in the North-East . |
| 11 | GEOGRAPHY is taught to Standard Grade , Higher Grade and Certificate of Sixth Year Studies levels and we are one of only a few schools to offer GEOLOGY Higher Grade . |
| 12 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 13 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 14 | In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases . |
| 15 | Secondly , one might accept the view that efficiency should not be ignored in analysing the firm , without believing that monopoly issues are relevant in only a few situations . |
| 16 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |