Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 2 | Money at call is money which can be withdrawn at only a few hours ' notice . |
| 3 | Entrances should be preceded by only a few frames of ‘ dead ’ action , and exits should be equally neat . |
| 4 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 5 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 6 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 7 | The future socialist society , he explained , would be one in which state planning would be retained in only a few essential sectors , but which would otherwise rely upon market forces . |
| 8 | Then , many had the bad luck to be infected whereas here we are talking about only a few people . |
| 9 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 10 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 11 | However , not only had these been implemented by only a few firms , but the majority were also oriented towards encouraging youth employment rather than positive action to assist older workers . |
| 12 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 13 | So volcanic rocks are composed of only a few mineral groups , each group having its own characteristic atomic structure . |
| 14 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 15 | Different centres of excellence will usually offer courses in their own specialism ; you may find you have to work away from home on secondment if your first choice is limited to only a few specialist centres . |
| 16 | When Malcolm James 's book Born of the Desert — the reminiscences of a doctor with the 1st S.A.S. in the Western Desert — appeared in 1945 , a reviewer wrote : ‘ All men have conscience , but it is given to only a few to have the selflessness to stride out into battle and , by themselves undertaking the combat that has to be done by someone , to satisfy its insistence … ’ |
| 17 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 18 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 19 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 22 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 23 | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane . |
| 24 | The Amphictionic coinage , for instance , was made from only a few ( nine ) dies and may not be typical . |
| 25 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 26 | He was used on only a few favoured bitches , but his influence is still undeniable , his potency incredible . |
| 27 | Calcite was recognised on only a few sections . |
| 28 | He was recognised by only a few , including columnist Sheilah Graham . |
| 29 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 30 | Although the scheme was run for only a few weeks , more than 1,000 pairs of spectacles were collected from BNFL sites . |