Example sentences of "[adj] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 2 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 3 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 4 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 5 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 6 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 7 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 8 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 9 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 11 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 12 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 13 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 14 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 15 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 16 | Carbon fibre technology has taken pole vaulting to heights unimaginable only a few years ago . |
| 17 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
| 18 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 19 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 20 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |