Example sentences of "[v-ing] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
2 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
3 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
4 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
5 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
6 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |
7 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
8 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |
9 | The Soviet work described in this historic talk concentrated on high-power pinch discharges lasting only a few microseconds with currents of up to two million amps flowing between electrodes in straight tubes . |
10 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
11 | e ) Sudden changes of pressure in the ears when clearing them , either on ascent or descent , can produce in susceptible pilots a strong feeling of disorientation , usually lasting only a few seconds . |
12 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
13 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
14 | Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days . |
15 | Consequently there are arguments among botanists about the relationships of many plants , living and fossil , and some classifications have quite large categories containing only a few plants , which may be rare . |
16 | In particular , can we move one piece into a desired position while disturbing only a few others ? |
17 | ‘ Weak ’ stimuli , activating only a few fibres , fail to induce LTP not because insufficient L-glutamate is released to activate NMDA receptors , but because the level of depolarization provided by the weak input does not produce an adequate reduction of the Mg 2+ block . |
18 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
19 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
20 | Since there are no employer 's references to be sought , self-certified loans are quicker to process , often taking only a few days . |
21 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
22 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
23 | The Mediterranean climatic zone , and the mode of life associated with it , is restricted to a thin fringe extending only a few miles inland . |
24 | The mestizo dug his thumb into his cocaine pouch and cursed at finding only a few grains on the nail . |
25 | a simple tale introducing only a few characters besides the hero and heroine is often very successful … . |
26 | To Joseph 's delight the Resident Superior led his entourage to the very front of the audience chamber and the American boy found himself standing only a few feet away from the throne where the Emperor Khai Dinh , a slender , almost feminine figure , sat swathed in a golden robe of richly embroidered silk . |
27 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
28 | Julius walked forward until he was standing only a few feet away . |
29 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
30 | So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons , leaving only a few electrons left over . |