Example sentences of "[pron] only [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up .
2 I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me .
3 The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title .
4 I only had a few weeks .
5 Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that .
6 I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages .
7 I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument .
8 The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes .
9 The 34-year-old star of Bonfire Of The Vanities has had the implants — which only last a few months — twice before .
10 You only got a few minutes did n't you ?
11 If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at .
12 Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing .
13 we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them
14 For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten .
15 So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ?
16 She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away .
17 After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one .
18 We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands .
19 ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said .
20 It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one .
21 It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody .
22 Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service .
23 But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost .
24 It only takes a few minutes .
25 It only takes a few minutes .
26 It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover .
27 It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover .
28 What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing .
29 Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde .
30 But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’
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