Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 2 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 3 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 4 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 5 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 6 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 7 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 8 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 9 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 10 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 11 | Only a few hours by train . ’ |
| 12 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 13 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 14 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 15 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 16 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 17 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 18 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 20 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
| 21 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 22 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |
| 23 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 24 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 25 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 26 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
| 27 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 28 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 29 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 30 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |