Example sentences of "[is] only [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |
| 3 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 4 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 6 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 7 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
| 8 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 9 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 10 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 11 | Put a scrap of newspaper on the block or box and lower the strip until the drop is only a few millimetres above the paper . |
| 12 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 13 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |