Example sentences of "[am/are] only [art] few " in BNC.

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31 In Scotland there are only a few who might in the future provide this at the top level .
32 There are only a few species of plants which grow floating on the water surface and are considered as useful for the heated aquarium .
33 The chicks are only a few days old , but these parents are obviously more relaxed with them than the Barnys were with any of their offspring . ( )
34 There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone .
35 There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island .
36 ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me .
37 There are only a few passes which remain open all year , although many smaller routes can be traversed freely throughout the summer months .
38 These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred .
39 In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press .
40 There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice .
41 There will be some months when there are only a few , relatively small bills to pay , whilst other months — especially during winter — will find you having to pay our much larger sums .
42 Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour .
43 Even at setts which are used regularly , the signs are not always clear if there are only a few animals present .
44 Most are only a few millimetres long .
45 Mudskippers are only a few centimetres long and you can find them in mangrove swamps and muddy estuaries in many parts of the tropics , lying on the glistening mud well beyond the lap of the waters .
46 Remember that most adult gall insects are only a few millimetres long and only one or two millimetres wide .
47 This is not too difficult if there are only a few media outlets involved and if their lead times to publication are the same .
48 So there are only a few foxes in the neighbourhood of the colony and they can only raid the margins of it .
49 Even when they are only a few months old , they have claws and teeth quite long and sharp enough to damage one another .
50 There are only a few coastal areas in Britain today still frequented by this attractive member of the corvine family .
51 ‘ You 're right , Doctor , ’ Lacuna was saying , ‘ but there are only a few dozen complete personalities that make up the gestalt .
52 Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long .
53 Even on my own world there are only a few who earn the title of sei-sen — sword bearer .
54 Lastly the best man or the toastmaster reads the telegrams in full if there are only a few , or reads the wittiest in full and then just gives the names of the senders of the others if there are many .
55 ‘ There are only a few minutes left , ’ Henri warned .
56 Outside of the dealerships , and there are only a few of these who understand the publishing process , a number of companies have established themselves as providers of independent advice , training and support .
57 There are only a few detailed comments we wish to make :
58 But by their very nature they are only a few lines on a piece of paper at the moment .
59 Small wonder then that there are only a few candidates !
60 At Hardington in Somerset there are only a few traces of the village , which is said to have gone by 1584 , but until recently there were very fine earthworks of a seventeenth-century garden landscape , with terraces , tree mounds , and park banks .
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