Example sentences of "have only a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 4 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 5 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 6 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 7 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |
| 8 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 9 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
| 10 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 11 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 12 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 13 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 14 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 15 | A few things remained in the bureau drawer ; the odds and ends that accumulate in drawers : an engagement diary for 1981 which had only a few entries ; an old wallet , empty except for an out-of-date RAC membership card . |
| 16 | Permeable areas usually have only a few streams , but they flow with little variation throughout the year and rarely flood . |
| 17 | No , I will not ; I have only a few minutes left . |
| 18 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 19 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 20 | I know that I have only a few hours left to live , but I can feel my loved ones near me , and I welcome death . |
| 21 | The life-shortening effect in LAWER is claimed to be ‘ smaller than that in euthanasia because the patients usually have only a few hours or days to live ’ . |
| 22 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 23 | What kept insects extremely small over millions of years of evolution , and why have only a few mammals ever approached the size of dinosaurs ? |
| 24 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 25 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 26 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 27 | I have only a few doses of the drug left . |
| 28 | It may be all very well when you have a goal in sight and you have only a few weeks to get through . |
| 29 | I have only a few weeks to live . ’ |