Example sentences of "would only [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds . |
| 2 | The government said that fuel supplies would only last a few weeks , but that meat and butter would run out within days . |
| 3 | It would only take a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds . |
| 5 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 6 | When Durbeyfield heard he would only get a few shillings for Prince 's dead body , he rose to the occasion . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |