Example sentences of "[verb] only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 2 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 3 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 4 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 5 | This ammonite has only a few strong ribs , with a number of small tubercles in addition . |
| 6 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 7 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 8 | On the other hand there are those whose speaking vocabulary contains only a few hundred words of not more than three syllables and their reading vocabulary not many more . |
| 9 | Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present . |
| 10 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 11 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 12 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 13 | Now he could see only a few shadowy figures half-glimpsed through the mists of the cooking fumes . |
| 14 | This fragment , measuring only a few square centimetres , was divided up and samples , the equivalent of about 50 mg in weight , were given to three accelerator laboratories in Oxford , Zurich and Tucson . |
| 15 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 16 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 17 | Birse & Robertson ( 1970 ) have classified only a few long , deep valleys of the Western Isles as ‘ moderately exposed ’ , with average wind speeds below 8.5 knots ( 4.4m/s ) . |
| 18 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 19 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 20 | It takes only a few thousands of eV ( keV ) to bring two nuclei together and if they fuse you get over a million eV ( MeV ) in return . |
| 21 | Bishopsgate is locked only a few hundred yards form the Bury Street Office and the explosion blew in a skylight , narrowly missing Jon Staniforth . |
| 22 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 23 | South of Loch Hourn is the wilderness of Knoydart known as the Rough Bounds , a region entirely without motor roads and having only a few lonely and unfrequented tracks through the mountain fastnesses . |
| 24 | The Dunbars have observed only a few such fights to completion but the outcome is quite remarkable . |
| 25 | The CEA 's official reports on the Itteville dump claimed radioactivity levels reached only a few hundred becquerels per cubic metre . |
| 26 | The relative importance of strip buildings in the urban plan has already been discussed ( p. 27 ) , and here it will suffice to mention only a few general examples . |
| 27 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 28 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 29 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 30 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |