Example sentences of "[v-ing] only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 2 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 3 | This fragment , measuring only a few square centimetres , was divided up and samples , the equivalent of about 50 mg in weight , were given to three accelerator laboratories in Oxford , Zurich and Tucson . |
| 4 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 5 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 6 | South of Loch Hourn is the wilderness of Knoydart known as the Rough Bounds , a region entirely without motor roads and having only a few lonely and unfrequented tracks through the mountain fastnesses . |
| 7 | Having introduced the reader to a fairly complex canonic structure we must move on , listing only a few main canonic usages as a reminder : canons at the unison , octave , and transposed ; canon by inversion and canon by retrograde and inverted retrograde ; canon cancrizans ( mirrored canon as in Example 137 ) ; canons by diminution and augmentation . |