Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
5 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
6 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
7 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
8 | The embrace lasts for only a few seconds as the eggs are expelled immediately and fertilised by the male . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
15 | 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 ? |