Example sentences of "and only a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the programme pick-up , Basil Hilton and Tony Geluch were using a single condenser microphone suspended centre stage and only a few feet above the conductor 's podium .
2 I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements .
3 As Weber ( 1963 ) points out , Sweden , Holland and Denmark are small nations with limited sized labour forces and only a few industries of major importance .
4 felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo .
5 No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception .
6 Cerveteri is built near the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere , one of their largest towns , near the sea and only a few miles from Rome .
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