Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
2 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
3 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
4 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
5 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
6 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
7 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |