Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Inspection of the annal canal showed protruding faecal material in only a few patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In all this time Kiev itself was in the hands of the short-lived Ukrainian Republic for only a few months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 17 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |