Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] for a few " in BNC.
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1 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
2 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
3 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
4 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
5 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
6 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
7 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
8 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |