Example sentences of "[coord] only [art] [det] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |
| 2 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 3 | Situated directly on the promenade and only a few steps away from the boat departure point , this beautiful art-nouveau building has been lovingly restored to combine the old style will all the comforts of a modern hotel . |
| 4 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 5 | There was only minimal violence during the game ( provided courtesy of Clare ‘ Tango ’ Herrington ) and only a few excuses afterwards . |
| 6 | A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca . |
| 7 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 8 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 9 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 10 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 11 | But only a few centres ever opened their doors . |
| 12 | But only a few miles farther on , the convoy was halted again . |
| 13 | But only a few schools completely integrated the teaching of domestic subjects and science . |
| 14 | Moorcroft and Coleman were appointed joint professors after an interregnum of seven months , but only a few weeks later , on 4 April , Moorcroft resigned . |
| 15 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |