Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 2 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 3 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 4 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 5 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 6 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 7 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 8 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 9 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
| 10 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 11 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 12 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 13 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 14 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 15 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |
| 16 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 17 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 18 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |