Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [vb past] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) .
2 The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours .
3 ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends .
4 The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her .
5 Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm .
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