Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] only a [adj] " 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 | It was a phrase spontaneously recalled by someone with only a little English . |
| 4 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 5 | In Russia in the 1960s , which with only a tenth of the world 's railway mileage carried almost half the amount of freight moved by the rest of the world , coal and coke constituted a quarter of total freight , with other goods like petrol , oil , ore , and timber comprising only one-fifteenth each . |
| 6 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 7 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 8 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 9 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 10 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 11 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 12 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 13 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |
| 14 | Although walls can be initially quite expensive , they require very little maintenance , little or no staffing and draw in many user visits ( 10,000 per year in Glasgow , 6,000 per year in Fort William ) thus paying for themselves after only a few years . |