Example sentences of "we have only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we 've only a small garrison left , but he ca n't get in and you 're hardly a runaway slave , no matter what de Raimes intended in the past . |
| 2 | Ah we 've only a wee bit to do . |
| 3 | ‘ Getting back to more important matters , we 've only a limited supply of food and water , so I do n't think we dare spend too much time here . |
| 4 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 5 | We have only a small staff . |
| 6 | We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results , let alone of predictions . |
| 7 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 8 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 9 | It 's sometimes limited if the winds are strong and we have only a few experienced sailors on holiday . |
| 10 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 11 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |