Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] only [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 3 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 4 | So much depends on Wright , still seeking his first England goal , and Shearer , who play together for only the second time . |
| 5 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 6 | Mares , on the whole , are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring , and rarely seem to reprimand them , and if so , then perhaps with only a slight nip . |
| 7 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 8 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 9 | It was bitterly cold , and light trickled in on only every second twist in the stairs . |
| 10 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 11 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 12 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 13 | Conditions stayed favourable and when we got to the headland of Volunteer Point , the small boat was launched and we were ferried ashore with only the odd wet foot resulting from the landing . |
| 14 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 15 | After purification treatment , the process water can be stored in elevated tanks and fed by gravity to the machine , or it can be pumped directly with only a small balancing tank overhead . |
| 16 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 17 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 18 | Such a book could conceivably be returned openly with only a modest blush ; but another labelled ‘ Stolen from … ’ would necessitate a more surreptitious means of restoration to its owner . |
| 19 | Have you ever looked at a coke fire ? the coke fire has been banked up with only a limited supply of air . |
| 20 | Now if we put these two parameters on here , we end up with only a small proportion of patients who actually have high pressure and low flow . |
| 21 | A cheer went up with only a single shout of ‘ Shame ! ’ — and recognizing defeat , Will turned and fled without carrying out his threat . |
| 22 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 23 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 24 | FITTED bedrooms are on the increase in Northern Ireland homes , though they account so far for only a small proportion of the very large bedroom furniture market . |
| 25 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 26 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 27 | Where a major change to the firm has taken place ( eg the departure of one partner out of only a few or several partners at one time , merger or takeover , or the closure of an entire department ) there is a professional obligation to notify clients as soon as reasonably practicable . |
| 28 | The lateral extensions of its body enable it to remain aloft with only a small expenditure of energy using the water for support as gliders use air . |
| 29 | And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop . |
| 30 | Short , bespectacled Mansell scrambled out with only a slight head injury . |