Example sentences of "with but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an ingenious idea ; but the war with revolutionary France soon destroyed the fiction that there could be two Parliaments with but a single executive . |
| 2 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 3 | Ones with numerous branches seemed to dominate the earlier rocks , ones with fewer branches were later , while in rocks we would now recognize as Silurian and early Devonian , forms with but a single branch ( or stipe ) were abundant . |
| 4 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 5 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 6 | This would apply , with but a few exceptions , to all cases under four weeks ' duration . |