Example sentences of "[verb] in only a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
2 | There was nothing unpleasant in his scrutiny , no hint of lechery or desire , yet she felt deeply uncomfortable standing there before him , clad in only a few minute scraps of cloth . |
3 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
4 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
5 | The future socialist society , he explained , would be one in which state planning would be retained in only a few essential sectors , but which would otherwise rely upon market forces . |