Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
| 2 | The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum . |
| 3 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 4 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 5 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 6 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 7 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 8 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 9 | These effects can hardly explain a shift in median age from 55 years to 63 years in only a decade , however . |
| 10 | Only then , as they swung in a half-circle with a hiss of blades between them , changing places on the slope like a pair of dancers with only a foot of air separating their faces , did Isambard know his mason again . |
| 11 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 12 | Next on the list was the British Women 's Championship at Hoylake where she defeated Mary McKenna , Aline van der Haegen , Linzi Fletcher , Catriona Lambert and Elaine Farquharson , in that order , after having qualified for the match-play stages with only a shot to spare . |
| 13 | An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago . |
| 14 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 15 | The cells are completely bare , some with an iron bedframe bolted to the floor , others with only a mattress and plastic bowl , pot , and that 's it . |
| 16 | He was an active figure in the Lords until only a week ago . |
| 17 | It was a considerable achievement for a society to pour so much milk , so much orange juice , so many vitamins down the throats of its children , for the height and weight of those children to outstrip so fast the measurements of only a decade before . |