Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 2 | Only a few hours earlier an unexpected Meeting Notice had been issued , the agenda being simply ‘ To consider the conduct of Major H. R. Maxim ’ . |
| 3 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 4 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 5 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 6 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 7 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 8 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 9 | Only a few weeks ago the Swanage Railway was in some difficulty providing steam locomotives with sufficient power . |
| 10 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |