Example sentences of "[pron] for only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 2 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 3 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 4 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 5 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 6 | He took it , but held it for only a moment . |
| 7 | Even if you think you 're only h leaving it for only a minute . |
| 8 | By any reckoning , the path into the future is exceptionally perilous and uncertain for this generation , and political sociology , I fear , can at best illumine it for only a relatively short distance ahead . |
| 9 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 10 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |