Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] only [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 2 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 3 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 4 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 5 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 6 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 7 | In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines . |
| 8 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |
| 9 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 10 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
| 11 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 12 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 13 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 14 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The police station is only a few minutes walk away . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
| 19 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 20 | There is a generous provision for car and coach parking and the centre is only a few minutes walk from the train and bus stations . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 23 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Grandson Richard 's ear was only a few inches away . |
| 26 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
| 27 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 28 | The National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International Airport are only a few miles away whilst the new International Convention Centre is only a short walk away . |
| 29 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 30 | 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 . |