Example sentences of "[prep] only a few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ .
2 So volcanic rocks are composed of only a few mineral groups , each group having its own characteristic atomic structure .
3 Indeed , access of only a few P. falciparum antigens to class I molecules , and the tendency of CTL responses to be focused on one or few foreign antigens , as observed in some other infections , may tend to magnify HLA class I differences in malaria susceptibility : LSA-1 is abundant within the parasitophorous vacuole .
4 Longhorns are the world 's oldest ‘ improved ’ breed , having been subject to the attentions of Robert Bakewell of Leicestershire more than 200 years ago , and until recently were listed with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust with only a few hobby farmer enthusiasts .
5 ‘ Has Eleanor gone ? ’ asked Julius 's voice a little roughly , from only a few feet way .
6 Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat .
7 In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach .
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