Example sentences of "there [was/were] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 2 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 3 | There were only a few gulls , though , wheeling in a sky shot with ragged clouds . |
| 4 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 5 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 6 | There were only a few inches |
| 7 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 8 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 9 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 10 | There were only a few names left on the list from the DVLC . |
| 11 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 12 | There were only a few trees along the river bank . |
| 13 | There were only a few Poles in the city and they all spoke German . |
| 14 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |
| 15 | There were only a few occasions when I remembered the news room falling silent as news came in via satellite . |
| 16 | There were only a few weeks now before she went into dry dock . |
| 17 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
| 18 | there was only a few things that we would |
| 19 | We used to have to catch the bus every morning and go to Chingford to school until Mark Hall was built and , erm and there was only one part of Mark Hall school built when we went there , there was only a few classrooms and er , it 's all grew up , the school grew up around us you know it 's a bit |