Example sentences of "[adv] only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps only a few applied for this job . |
| 2 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 3 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |
| 4 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 5 | The interludes at the start of each act determine the character of the music for a time ( except for Interlude V , which is abruptly curtailed by the Barn Dance music of Act Three scene one , lending thereafter only a few sinister flecks of moonlight ) . |
| 6 | Currently available speech recognition systems typically impose a number of constraints on the user , such as a limited vocabulary ( possibly only a few hundred words ) , speaker dependence ( new users require individual training ) and the use of disconnected speech ( rather than the more natural continuous speech ) . |
| 7 | for people , kids being off , so it 's obvious the rest of the country 's off that week , and so it 's probably only a few limited schools |
| 8 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |