Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 32 | By contrast , some of the smallest features seen have lasted for only a few hours . |
| 33 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |