Example sentences of "with only a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
2 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
3 | The fact that most of the rainforest is uninhabited , with only a few pockets of indigenous communities , makes exploitation attractive . |
4 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
5 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
6 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
7 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
8 | The next day , although three of the team made the descent by mid-afternoon , the rest spent three or four hours walking after dark , with only a few torches between them to light the way . |
9 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
10 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
11 | Since 1959 , when the Social Democrats embraced capitalism , German politics has been a large clustering around the centre , with only a few dissenters on the margins . |
12 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
13 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
14 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
15 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |