Example sentences of "was only [art] few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 2 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 3 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
| 4 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |
| 5 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 6 | Kevin Williams of Hereford … was only a few seconds behind him |
| 7 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 8 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 9 | The dragon , carrying the weight of two men , was only a few yards above the grass . |
| 10 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 11 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 12 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |