Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] only [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
2 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
3 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |