Example sentences of "[adj] only a few " in BNC.
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1 | There were as usual only a few lone silent figures , sitting in isolation . |
2 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
3 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
4 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
5 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
6 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
7 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
8 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
9 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
10 | Carbon fibre technology has taken pole vaulting to heights unimaginable only a few years ago . |
11 | The intensity of the effect is high , but in general only a few vibrational modes are involved , and often only one is detectable . |
12 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
13 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
14 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |