Example sentences of "have been only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 2 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 3 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 4 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 5 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 6 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 7 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |