Example sentences of "[v-ing] only [art] 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 .
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