Example sentences of "[prep] only a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 2 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 3 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 4 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 5 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |
| 6 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 7 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 8 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 9 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 10 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 11 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 12 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
| 13 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |