Example sentences of "[noun prp] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
2 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
3 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
4 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
5 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
6 | The pirate died first , then Hunter only a few hours later . |
7 | She had met Luke Hunter only a few days earlier . |
8 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
9 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
10 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
11 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
12 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
13 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
14 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
15 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |