Example sentences of "[vb past] only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 3 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 5 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 6 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 7 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 8 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 9 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 10 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 11 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 12 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 13 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 14 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 15 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 16 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 17 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 18 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 20 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 21 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 22 | And the Rose d'Or , a little hotel opened only a few weeks ago , promises a welcome alternative to the establishments of Apt , Aix and Cavaillon . |
| 23 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 24 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 25 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 26 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 27 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 28 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 29 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 30 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |