Example sentences of "[verb] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 32 | An elegance which was enjoyed only a few days earlier can now seem artificial , out of touch with the sense of self that has arisen . |
| 33 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 34 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 35 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 36 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 37 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 38 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 39 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 40 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 41 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 42 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 43 | She could feel only a few twigs . |
| 44 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 45 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 46 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 47 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |
| 48 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 49 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 50 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 51 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 52 | The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ . |
| 53 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 54 | In the mist , Giles could see only a few feet ahead , so he moved very carefully . |
| 55 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 56 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 57 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 58 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 59 | And the Rose d'Or , a little hotel opened only a few weeks ago , promises a welcome alternative to the establishments of Apt , Aix and Cavaillon . |
| 60 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |