Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] only [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
2 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
3 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
4 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
5 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
6 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
7 | Growth in the take-home trade — some 15 per cent of all beer sales — in which only a few of the larger independent brewers have national distribution . |
8 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
9 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
10 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
11 | The subject is now surrounded by a multitude of objects from which only a few can be selected and invested with a sense of self , but Simmel argues that : ‘ our freedom is crippled if we deal with objects that our ego can not assimilate ’ ( 1978 : 462 ) . |
12 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
13 | It attempts to be a proof that all children can be educated ; yet it is also supposed to form a preparation for higher education to which only a few will aspire . |
14 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
15 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |