Example sentences of "[ex0] be only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are only a few passes which remain open all year , although many smaller routes can be traversed freely throughout the summer months . |
| 2 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
| 3 | ‘ There are only a few minutes left , ’ Henri warned . |
| 4 | In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press . |
| 5 | There are only a few studies with which we can illustrate this approach . |
| 6 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 7 | Thus anatomy may reflect the fact that there are only a few ways in which some engineering problem can be solved . |
| 8 | Syphilis has long been labelled ‘ the great imitator ’ and there are only a few clues to prod the examining doctor into thinking of the correct diagnosis rather than some other condition . |
| 9 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 10 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 11 | So there are only a few foxes in the neighbourhood of the colony and they can only raid the margins of it . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact is , ’ he went on , ‘ there are only a few years remaining for your Aunt Emily and myself . |
| 13 | However , since there are only a few parties competing in the election and many different aspects of government on which they are offering a position , this can be only a very crude way to elicit people 's view of how much of any particular public good should be provided . |
| 14 | Woods seems to assume in the passage cited above that there are only a few regions where high quality accidental word matches take place . |
| 15 | At Hardington in Somerset there are only a few traces of the village , which is said to have gone by 1584 , but until recently there were very fine earthworks of a seventeenth-century garden landscape , with terraces , tree mounds , and park banks . |
| 16 | In Easton , there are only a few policewomen attached to each section . |
| 17 | Small wonder then that there are only a few candidates ! |
| 18 | Even at setts which are used regularly , the signs are not always clear if there are only a few animals present . |
| 19 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 20 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 21 | There were only a few gulls , though , wheeling in a sky shot with ragged clouds . |
| 22 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 23 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 24 | There were only a few inches |
| 25 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 26 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 27 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 28 | There were only a few names left on the list from the DVLC . |
| 29 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 30 | There were only a few trees along the river bank . |