Example sentences of "[adv] only [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 2 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 3 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 4 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 5 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 6 | Yet only a few days after the Wallabies had tucked the Cup safely away , as they thoroughly deserved to do , NZRFU officials were bustling about trying to find out what their players were up to . |
| 7 | ‘ Otherwise only a few grazes and cuts . |