Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |
| 2 | For the programme pick-up , Basil Hilton and Tony Geluch were using a single condenser microphone suspended centre stage and only a few feet above the conductor 's podium . |
| 3 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 4 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 5 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 6 | Only a few feet from the side of the ship a sucking swirl dimpled the water ominously . |
| 7 | He sat only a few feet from the screen , perched on the edge of the bed , a study in confusion and misery . |
| 8 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
| 9 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 10 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |
| 11 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 13 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 14 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 15 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 16 | It took only a few minutes for the Doctor to break down and analyse the strangely oily powder , using the lateral molecular rectifier to be absolutely certain . |
| 17 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 18 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 19 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 20 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 21 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 22 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 23 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 24 | Only a few stalwarts of the original L Detachment were included , together with Stirling himself and Paddy Mayne . |
| 25 | No hyenas , no kudu , no oryx ; only a few eagles in a place called Scotland and , unbelievably , hardly any kites . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Curl your toes back and with tummy pulled in , raise both arms towards your toes , lifting your head and shoulders only a few inches off the floor . |
| 29 | She was only about five feet tall , if that , and the kid , a big healthy specimen , seemed to be only a few inches off the floor . |
| 30 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |