Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 2 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 3 | There can be baby universes that contain only a few particles . |
| 4 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 5 | SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder . |
| 6 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 7 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 8 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 9 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 10 | She checked , but saw only a few photographs of a passing-out parade , a map , some pens and a blotter . |
| 11 | They were four-and-three-quarter inches long , and would fit onto most machines , but gave only a few seconds extra time . |
| 12 | In particular , can we move one piece into a desired position while disturbing only a few others ? |