Example sentences of "[subord] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 2 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 3 | Although only a few cases have been studied , it seems probable that extensive infiltration and smooth muscle replacement by amyloid deposits occur in patients with AH amyloidosis , as shown in our case . |
| 4 | The sculptures and inscriptions with which the Romans embellished their cities provide a particularly valuable insight into the purpose of Roman monuments , although only a few sites are known in which buildings , statues and inscriptions survive together . |
| 5 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 6 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Although only a few miles separate Richmond from Leeds and Beverley from Hull , prices differ enormously . |
| 8 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 9 | If only a few births occur to teenagers who are under 18 years old , then the infant mortality of the " under 20 " maternal age group may be dominated by the lower mortality at maternal ages 18–19 , which may explain the apparent " anomaly " of the Danish data . |
| 10 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 11 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 12 | While only a few farmers could cope on this scale , there was a growing body of men whose individual holdings might have been small but whose collected wealth in terms of stock was vast , although sadly beyond accurate calculation by later historians . |
| 13 | It was to the credit of Philip IV that he laid the foundations for a dockyard at Rouen , while only a few years later in England , Edward II , whose father had built some galleys , was to possess a small squadron of ‘ royal ’ ships . |
| 14 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 15 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 16 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |
| 17 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 18 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 19 | ‘ How interesting that after only a few hours you know so much about me . |
| 20 | His imposition of a state of emergency and cancellation of forthcoming presidential elections led to demonstrations and he was forced out of office after only a few hours [ see pp. 38925-26 ] . |
| 21 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 22 | After only a few lessons , most people can even hypnotise themselves . |
| 23 | Normal tissue paper , like most paper , contains acid which encourages fading and decay , including the gradual yellowing of white fabrics , a process which may be seen after only a few years . |
| 24 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 25 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 26 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
| 27 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |
| 28 | The headache was the Leyland Class 155 , withdrawn after only a few months with doors that jammed open . |
| 29 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 30 | If you leave after only a few months ' experience here , believe me , you will find it hard to get a good job elsewhere . |