Example sentences of "[coord] only [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 2 | In 1987 the ‘ Black Album ’ of pop singer Prince was withdrawn before it was issued , and only a few genuine copies ‘ escaped ’ . |
| 3 | She exuded power : the power to change a boy 's destiny with a stern shake of her head and only a few official-sounding words . |
| 4 | Nowadays , a gated road leads past scattered farms , and only a few uneven mounds give evidence of the castle . |
| 5 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 6 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 7 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 8 | Around 700 warders are stationed at the Belfast jail which houses loyalist and republican remand prisoners and only a few sentenced prisoners . |
| 9 | When the temperature of crystallization is close to the melting temperature , nucleation is sporadic and only a few large spherulites will grow . |
| 10 | Following his adoption of the new methods , there were no deaths and only a few minor complications in thirty-five patients treated without selection at the Liverpool Infirmary . |
| 11 | The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded . |
| 12 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 13 | Among vertebrates , no mammals , and only a few domestic strains of birds , are parthenogenetic , but there are wild ‘ species ’ of lizards consisting only of parthenogenetic females . |
| 14 | There were no enemies and only a few night-time predators on the steppe ; however he was pleased to note that elementary security was not being neglected . |
| 15 | But only a few hundred yards away from homes targetted for eviction … other RAF quarters stand empty . |
| 16 | Yes , but only a few minor ones . |
| 17 | He was diffident — unlike Ernest who was good at all games — and preoccupied with his country pursuits , but they found him companionable ; himself capable of long hours of solitude , he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time ; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations . |
| 18 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |