Example sentences of "[ex0] are only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , given the fact that there are only a couple of dozen companies quoted on the exchange , the opportunity for follow-on business for DEC is looking limited in the short term , despite its apparent enthusiasm to off-load a VAX 6000 . |
| 2 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 3 | As a scheduled operator , Virgin must fly its 400-seat jumbos even if there are only a handful of passengers on board . |
| 4 | There are only a handful of Jews in Palestine . |
| 5 | One would expect works on Religion , Philosophy and the English Classics in the library of a scholar but it is surprising to find that there are only a handful of books in Gaelicin the collection of one of the translaters of the Holy Scriptures into that language . |
| 6 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 7 | ‘ There are only a handful of these machines around the world , and the only one available for eye tumours in Britain is at Clatterbridge . |