Example sentences of "[noun pl] only [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
2 | Curl your toes back and with tummy pulled in , raise both arms towards your toes , lifting your head and shoulders only a few inches off the floor . |
3 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
4 | It was once a dairy farm but with the introduction of milk quotas only a few cows are kept now to provide milk , cheese , cream and yogurt . |
5 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
6 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
7 | Single-mode fibres also operate at 1.3 micrometres , but they have cores only a few micrometers across . |
8 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
9 | Above Angela found the 17th-century four-poster bed while on a foray in the Welsh borders 18 years ago , and came upon the crewel-work hangings only a few weeks later in Hastings . |
10 | Not only can marked variation in embryonic development be observed even within litters but , during such a dynamic phase of morphogenetic change , embryos only a few hours apart in age may be significantly different in their developmental state . |
11 | DR Gregor Gysi , East Germany 's new Communist party ( SED ) chairman , was shunned as a dangerous idealist reformer by the country 's discredited leaders only a few weeks ago . |
12 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
13 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
14 | Hence the burgeoning popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party : a fringe party of Hindu extremists only a few years ago , it looks as though it could be part of a government after the election . |