Example sentences of "[pron] [be] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 2 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 3 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 5 | Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long . |
| 6 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 7 | But the spit at Pellestrina , which is only a few feet high , is vulnerable to being breached , the experts believe a 12km long perched beach could provide the answer . |
| 8 | There is very easy access to the centre of Brno , by tram ( which is only a few minutes walk away ) . |
| 9 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 10 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 11 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 12 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 13 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 14 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |
| 15 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 16 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 17 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 18 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 19 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 20 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 21 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 22 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 23 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 24 | There are only a few passes which remain open all year , although many smaller routes can be traversed freely throughout the summer months . |
| 25 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
| 26 | ‘ There are only a few minutes left , ’ Henri warned . |
| 27 | In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press . |
| 28 | There are only a few studies with which we can illustrate this approach . |
| 29 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 30 | Thus anatomy may reflect the fact that there are only a few ways in which some engineering problem can be solved . |