Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] only a few [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 11 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 14 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 15 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 16 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 17 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 18 | There were only a few gulls , though , wheeling in a sky shot with ragged clouds . |
| 19 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 20 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 21 | There were only a few inches |
| 22 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 23 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 24 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 25 | There were only a few names left on the list from the DVLC . |
| 26 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 27 | There were only a few trees along the river bank . |
| 28 | There were only a few Poles in the city and they all spoke German . |
| 29 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |
| 30 | There were only a few occasions when I remembered the news room falling silent as news came in via satellite . |