Example sentences of "[adv] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 2 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 3 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 4 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 5 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
| 6 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 7 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 8 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 9 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
| 10 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 11 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 12 | Whereas formerly only a few writers ( such as de Sade and Sacher-Masoch ) propagated their practice , today they play a decisive role in our culture , literature , art , music , theater and movies . |
| 13 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 14 | It felt like an hour , but it was probably only a few minutes . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's my guess that the reunion really will take place — probably only a few minutes after her arrival . ’ |
| 16 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
| 17 | There are probably only a few crewmen on board , not combat trained . |
| 18 | Similar powers in the Housing Act of 1890 had only been permissive and so far only a few councils ( notably London ) had been active house builders ; indeed some , including Birmingham , had regarded the proposition as a matter of last resort . |
| 19 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 20 | Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth . |
| 21 | WITH THE new season now only a few weeks away , clubs will be assessing how they can best update or improve their facilities . |
| 22 | Now only a few months later , it is itself superseded . |
| 23 | The general election was now only a few months away . |
| 24 | Your forefathers landed here only a few generations ago . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , ’ he breathed , ‘ we have been here only a few days . |
| 26 | ‘ Silas said you 'd been here only a few days . ’ |
| 27 | The history of the nationalities of the former Russian empire is complex , and here only a few details can be given to illustrate how doctrine was radically reshaped by events until in content , if not in form , it became its opposite . |
| 28 | He provides further insight into Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ : ‘ In April Ted Lawrence and myself were flown to Hendon ( from Elgin , Scotland , where 232 Squadron was based ) and , under strict security arrangements , did 130 hours practising take offs before reaching a white line across the strip , seemingly only a few yards ahead of us . |
| 29 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 30 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |