Example sentences of "[prep] only [art] few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 3 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 4 | He reported that all of the formerly rampant vegetation on Krakatoa had now been destroyed , with only a few of the thicker tree-trunks still rising above the thick mantle of ash , and that there were now three major eruption columns carrying clouds of dust and pumice high into the air , escaping from three separate vents . |
| 5 | In terms of the stage of the disease , the majority were Dukes ' stage B ( 35% ) or C ( 33% ) , with only a few in Dukes ' stage A ( 12% ) . |
| 6 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 7 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |