Example sentences of "only [vb pp] a [adj] [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 — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 4 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 5 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 8 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 9 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |