Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only a few [noun pl] " 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 Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked .
4 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 .
5 In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases .
6 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 .
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