Example sentences of "only [art] few [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides .
2 These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play .
3 Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's .
4 This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so .
5 Only a few of the particles fed into the SPS actually collide ; the remainder just fly past each other .
6 This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) .
7 Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors .
8 Again , as one member of staff said , ‘ only a few of the girls complain in any one class ’ .
9 This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today .
10 Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment .
11 And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE !
12 Only a few of the diplodocuses survived .
13 Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) .
14 Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw .
15 These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character .
16 Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground .
17 Job costing , fee assessment , cash-flow forecasting and staff motivation are only a few of the requirements of a successful practice manager .
18 A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking .
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