Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 2 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 3 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 6 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
| 7 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 8 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
| 9 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 10 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 11 | The embrace lasts for only a few seconds as the eggs are expelled immediately and fertilised by the male . |
| 12 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 13 | Yet only a few days after the Wallabies had tucked the Cup safely away , as they thoroughly deserved to do , NZRFU officials were bustling about trying to find out what their players were up to . |
| 14 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 15 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 16 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |
| 17 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 18 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |