Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] only [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 2 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 3 | The specimen should be supported so that the etched face is almost horizontal , tilting by only a few degrees . |
| 4 | The American delegation had submitted ‘ a long list of trading firms , educational institutions , research institutions , local and provincial organizations , each amounting to only a few people , and even street neighbour groups , and is insisting on consultations with them ’ . |
| 5 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 6 | Then , many had the bad luck to be infected whereas here we are talking about only a few people . |
| 7 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |