Example sentences of "a [noun] only [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 4 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |
| 5 | Bear in mind that foot health has a very low rating on a " need to know " basis for a mother with a baby only a few weeks old . |
| 6 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 7 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 8 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 9 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |