Example sentences of "was only [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 2 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 4 | On the following night Dougal and Lorton decided against taking the car ; the distance from Lorton 's house to the Newleys ' was only a few hundred yards . |
| 5 | Whilst it was many centuries before flint sickles were replaced with iron scythes and reap hooks , it was only a few more years before reapers , when self binders and then combines were introduced . |
| 6 | That was only a few short days ago but now seemed light years away . |
| 7 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 8 | Indeed , one of Paul 's first actions was to issue a bull denouncing the alienation of ecclesiastical property , and it was only the considerable diplomatic efforts of Pole that eventually persuaded him to exempt England from its provisions . |
| 9 | And when you say ‘ no up-to-date trading figures ’ , it was only the last six months that had n't been prepared . |