Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 2 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 4 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 5 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 6 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 7 | Only in a few cosmetic details did it owe anything to French or other West European influences . |
| 8 | In Spain for example , where the social importance of a commission was comparatively slight , would-be officers were required to prove noble descent only in a few calvary regiments . |
| 9 | The results were often not good , yet only in a few severe cases did HMI go in and make an impact with its report . |
| 10 | In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings . |
| 11 | It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat . |
| 12 | San Vincenzo is a lovely resort of clear soft sands interrupted only by a few emerging reefs . |