Example sentences of "[vb -s] only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 3 | Today the surface of the peat fens lies only a few feet above or below sea-level . |
| 4 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 5 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 6 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 7 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 8 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 9 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 10 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 11 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 12 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 13 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 14 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
| 15 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 16 | It seems only a few weeks ago , but is probably about a year , since I , through Points of View , had to draw attention to the Department of Transport 's annual statistics bulletin , The Allocation of Road Track Costs . |
| 17 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 18 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 19 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 20 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
| 21 | Eventually a large branch with lots of other branches on it and lots of leaves — half a bush , practically — snags only a few metres down the shaft and we stop , breathless , sweating , trembling from exertion and delayed shock . |
| 22 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
| 23 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |
| 24 | The change from flute to piccolo or vice versa occupies only a few seconds . |