Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
2 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
3 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
4 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
5 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
6 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
7 | In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases . |
8 | Secondly , one might accept the view that efficiency should not be ignored in analysing the firm , without believing that monopoly issues are relevant in only a few situations . |