Example sentences of "at only a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 2 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 3 | Money at call is money which can be withdrawn at only a few hours ' notice . |
| 4 | These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ? |
| 5 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 6 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 7 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 8 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |