Example sentences of "only [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 2 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 3 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 4 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 5 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 6 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 7 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 8 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 9 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 10 | Thus tunicates ( creatures distantly related to vertebrates , and commonly known as ‘ sea-squirts ’ ) naturally accumulate vanadium or titanium which are present in sea water only in a few parts per billion . |
| 11 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 12 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 13 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |