Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 2 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |
| 5 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 6 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 7 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 8 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 9 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |