Example sentences of "[vb past] only a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NACAB report involved only a small number of students who approached only one of about 60 bureaux . |
| 2 | Broca ( 1961 , in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had reported that a series of patients with severe disturbances of speech had all suffered damage to the inferior part of the third frontal convolutions of their left hemispheres and Jackson ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had described cases of ‘ petit mal ’ epilepsy which involved only a limited number of ‘ faculties ’ . |
| 3 | It required only a limited number of Joyce 's searing denunciations of Jewry to undo all his leader 's soothing words . |
| 4 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 5 | There were no vegetables — the Yek grew only a limited number — and he selected an apple from a pile in a bowl and started to peel it with his d'jaga . |
| 6 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |