Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days .
2 She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ .
3 Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies .
4 Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative .
5 She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back .
6 She checked , but saw only a few photographs of a passing-out parade , a map , some pens and a blotter .
7 They were four-and-three-quarter inches long , and would fit onto most machines , but gave only a few seconds extra time .
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