Example sentences of "[prep] only [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 2 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard , for only a few high-level headmen received a salary . |
| 4 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |
| 5 | Its bases around the Bay were staffed by a total of only a few hundred men . |
| 6 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 7 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 8 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 9 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 10 | As breeding birds Moorhens are common , occurring wherever there is water ; even ponds of only a few square yards frequently hold breeding pairs . |
| 11 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 12 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 13 | When the house was finished , he hid himself away for months at a time , with only a few good friends and his beloved books and garden . |
| 14 | Some are simple , like ‘ patient ’ , with only a few critical attributes , whilst others such as ‘ emotion , , ‘ perception ’ and ‘ learning are complex . |
| 15 | The segregated nature of the educational system remains the same as ever , with only a few private schools taking pupils of all races . |
| 16 | Thus , when the film was resubmitted to the Board in 1973 , it was classified ‘ X ’ ( 18 ) for nationwide release , with only a few scattered councils maintaining their ban on local screenings . |
| 17 | The initial ribbon development along the Ermine Street frontages with only a few irregular side-lanes and possibly one large building ( No. 1 ) . |
| 18 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 19 | Outside it is severe , with only a few small windows and most of those grilled . |
| 20 | with only a few little bits in it |
| 21 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 22 | The amazing variety of metal artefacts in the ancient world was created with only a few different metals : copper , tin , lead , silver , gold , iron , arsenic and zinc . |
| 23 | He had a clear picture , for there was virtually no cloud cover , with only a few wispy strips of cirrus streaked like vapour trails against the reddish-brown groundscape . |
| 24 | Swapping to Korg 's SPC-1 sound card produced more of the same , with only a few interesting variations . |
| 25 | After the revival in 1688 , the Kilwinning papingo shoot continued with only a few brief interruptions through the 18th and into the 19th century . |
| 26 | Then our secret life could continue as before , with only the small wild things knowing of our existence . |
| 27 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 28 | Where previously Tony had struggled to accept even basic school discipline , he was able to survive St Augustine 's with only the occasional small-scale disagreements with a minority of staff . |
| 29 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |
| 30 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |