Example sentences of "it was only [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours .
2 It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read .
3 It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine .
4 It was only a few minutes .
5 As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping .
6 As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics .
7 It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell .
8 It was only a few steps , but now she was leaning on his arm for steadiness rather than support .
9 It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south .
10 It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available .
11 It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant .
12 However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field .
13 It was only a few yards to the water .
14 home but it was only a few yards anyway from .
15 It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee .
16 It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out .
17 It was only a few seconds later , just as she was finishing an easy row of plain knitting , that she heard the tinkle of Faye 's bell , a clamorous , urgent sound that cut across the dreamy mood of the October afternoon .
18 She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open
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