Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] only a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
2 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
3 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
4 | Some need only a few strokes , others need many . |
5 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
6 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |