Example sentences of "[adv] only [art] [det] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
| 2 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 3 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 4 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 5 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
| 6 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
| 7 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 8 | The Office of Fair Trading 's report on the subject came out only a few days before , and Mr Blair introduced it . |
| 9 | WITH THE new season now only a few weeks away , clubs will be assessing how they can best update or improve their facilities . |
| 10 | Now only a few months later , it is itself superseded . |
| 11 | The general election was now only a few months away . |
| 12 | Your forefathers landed here only a few generations ago . |
| 13 | He provides further insight into Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ : ‘ In April Ted Lawrence and myself were flown to Hendon ( from Elgin , Scotland , where 232 Squadron was based ) and , under strict security arrangements , did 130 hours practising take offs before reaching a white line across the strip , seemingly only a few yards ahead of us . |
| 14 | A sudden wave of despondency washed over Robyn as her gaze drifted towards the statuette and she remembered the way she had felt up there only a few hours before . |
| 15 | The message was delivered to Mr Adams on Sunday , yet only a few hours later he refused to join with the leaders of constitutional parties in condemning the bomb outrage . |
| 16 | Yet only a few years later , the Royal Commission of 1954–1957 recommended radical changes with a new policy of community integration . |
| 17 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |