Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 3 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 4 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 5 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 6 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 7 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 8 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 9 | Tickets for the show , which is being backed by the Arts Council , the City Council , and the Merseyside Development Corporation , sold out in only a few hours . |
| 10 | She could tell he was relieved to be let off the hook if even for only a few minutes , despite his words as they 'd come downstairs . |
| 11 | Like Trevor , when the other person 's tension breaks and the anger bursts , do you feel any satisfaction or relief within yourself , even for only a few moments ? |
| 12 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 13 | Dorothy Sayers separates her description of the picture and her list of the fallen paints here by only a few pages ( which is perhaps why I guessed , for once ) but you can see how similar clues can be kept in two parts with dozens of pages between them . |
| 14 | The MMC has wide powers to make recommendations , and the Secretary of State to act on these recommendations , yet on only a few occasions have companies been formally penalized as a result of MMC investigations . |
| 15 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |