Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
| 2 | No hyenas , no kudu , no oryx ; only a few eagles in a place called Scotland and , unbelievably , hardly any kites . |
| 3 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 4 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
| 5 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 6 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |
| 7 | A distinctive feature of the Dolls ' House was that almost without exception every item in it was specifically commissioned and an integral part of the whole gift — only a few pieces in the house were found in the antique trade or private collections . |
| 8 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
| 11 | So there are only a few foxes in the neighbourhood of the colony and they can only raid the margins of it . |
| 12 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 15 | I had planned to stay only a few days in the Bahamas . |
| 16 | There were only a few Poles in the city and they all spoke German . |
| 17 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 18 | 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 . |