Example sentences of "only [prep] the [num ord] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | only for the first few days |
2 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
3 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
4 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
5 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
6 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
7 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
8 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
9 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
10 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
11 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
12 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
13 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
14 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
15 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
16 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |