Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 2 | Inspection of the annal canal showed protruding faecal material in only a few patients . |
| 3 | On an arable farm with only a few cattle kept to make manure , little provision would be made for these animals , but there would be one or more barns , stables and shelters for carts . |
| 4 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 5 | In all this time Kiev itself was in the hands of the short-lived Ukrainian Republic for only a few months . |
| 6 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 7 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 8 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 9 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 10 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |