Example sentences of "[vb past] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 3 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 4 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 5 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 6 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 7 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 8 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 9 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 10 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 11 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 12 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 13 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 14 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 15 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 16 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 17 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 18 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 20 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 21 | Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging . |
| 22 | And the Rose d'Or , a little hotel opened only a few weeks ago , promises a welcome alternative to the establishments of Apt , Aix and Cavaillon . |
| 23 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 24 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 25 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 26 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 27 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 28 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 29 | At first I heard only a few calls ; within ten minutes , at least twice as many animals were calling , and , by circling about the pool , I observed that a steady stream of spadefoots was coming from all directions to the breeding area . |
| 30 | ‘ But you returned only a few weeks ago , during Holy Week ? ’ |