Example sentences of "[prep] only a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 2 | And she 'd work day and night , as I wished , for only a small extra payment . |
| 3 | Some horses who suffer chronic anxiety due to poor management or handling , already have a sufficiently high background of stress for only a single stressful incident , like injury , illness , or a new home , to precipitate them into colic or some other illness . |
| 4 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 5 | There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard , for only a few high-level headmen received a salary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Comment on any difficulties caused by ( a ) the lack of index registers , ( b ) the presence of two instructions per word , and ( c ) the provision of only a single conditional jump instruction . |
| 8 | This is in contrast with its predecessor ( Logogen Theory ) which assumes activation of only a single lexical item . |
| 9 | Its bases around the Bay were staffed by a total of only a few hundred men . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As breeding birds Moorhens are common , occurring wherever there is water ; even ponds of only a few square yards frequently hold breeding pairs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Laboratory studies have been made up to about 10 6 bars , at which pressures molecular hydrogen is still liquid even at 170 K. However , such pressures are encountered at depths of only a few 1000 km below the clouds , and therefore theoretical studies have to be used to obtain the phase-diagram at greater pressures . |
| 19 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ she said at last with only a faint betraying tremor in her voice , ‘ if you really are dead set on staying to help , there is something you could do . ’ |
| 21 | Everyone seems to have cheered up enormously even though , because of big problems in Tory marginals , both channels are predicting a hung parliament , with only a small Conservative lead over Labour . |
| 22 | The medievalist has had to accept the limitations , as well as the advantages , of having as his subject matter a culture with only a small literary élite . |
| 23 | Suppose now that you wish to dub music to a video recording with only a simple linear mono sound track . |
| 24 | The oral shield may be rhombic or rounded triangular with only a slight distal projection . |
| 25 | When we went there were a little carrier bag with only a tiny little carrier bag |
| 26 | Maybe the Church is n't the answer for some especially those in parishes with only a few young people , but that is why I praise the deanery day as it provides a discussion place for people of all ages , and encourages us — the Church of the future — to make the Church a more appealing and welcoming place . |
| 27 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some are simple , like ‘ patient ’ , with only a few critical attributes , whilst others such as ‘ emotion , , ‘ perception ’ and ‘ learning are complex . |
| 30 | The segregated nature of the educational system remains the same as ever , with only a few private schools taking pupils of all races . |