Example sentences of "[prep] only a few [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 7 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |