Example sentences of "[det] only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 2 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 3 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
| 4 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 5 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 6 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 7 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 8 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 9 | Well I mean if you had twenty or thirty that 's only the same only a little bit different , that 's all |