Example sentences of "only a [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 2 | Sounds like a guide vocal to me too , but with this voice it could be only a few words sung into a length of sewer pipe and it would still sound great . |
| 3 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
| 4 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 5 | It would be far preferable to use only a few words — a brief poem where every word is potent : |
| 6 | A blistering July day , her thick woollen underwear sodden with perspiration under the hot black habit , a throbbing headache , Hilda more insistent than ever ; a scene in the playground , only a few words exchanged because other girls were watching , but a few words that shrieked under the stress of the emotion that they bore ; an impatient phrase , more cutting than she had intended ; Hilda turning away–nth a passionate sob , running , running … |
| 7 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Only a few words , I 'm afraid , ’ Ronni answered . |
| 9 | Only a few words , and you can be taken out of this cell , fed , warmed , lodged in a better place , ’ he tempted softly . |