Example sentences of "[prep] only a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 2 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 3 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 4 | The embrace lasts for only a few seconds as the eggs are expelled immediately and fertilised by the male . |
| 5 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 6 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 7 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 8 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 9 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 10 | It is one of only a few products that can run text round an irregular object , although there are restrictions to this . |
| 11 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 12 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 13 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 14 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 15 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 16 | The report runs to only a few lines and Treby C.J. of the Common Pleas is reported as holding that ‘ when money is paid in pursuance of a void authority , etc. indebitatus assumpsit lies for it . ’ |
| 17 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 18 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |