Example sentences of "there [was/were] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were only a couple of cars there at that time of the evening . |
| 2 | Where previously there were only a couple of worthwhile applications , there 's now a mass of competing packages . |
| 3 | Sometimes there were only a couple of men ‘ up on the mountain' ; sometimes there were as many as half a dozen sheltering under the wall . |
| 4 | There were only a couple of critically dissenting voices . |
| 5 | All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score . |
| 6 | For once she was early and there were only a handful of girls in the yard , all stamping their feet and huddling in their cloaks to keep out the bitter cold . |
| 7 | Of the thousands of chair makers living in the scattered villages of the Chilterns in 1880 , 30 years later there were only a handful , working in factories concentrated in High Wycombe ( Saville 1957 ) . |
| 8 | During the recent explosion in numbers , a year ago there were only a handful — now there are dozens , it has become apparent that there are three distinct breeds of bureau . |
| 9 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 10 | Usually they were very ancient foundations and there were only a handful of such in England . |
| 11 | There was only a nurse to help untie and unbutton the morning 's fastenings before she undressed and climbed into a bed in the long , crowded dormitory . |
| 12 | There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard . |
| 13 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 14 | Even though there was only a year between the two boys , Charlie looked on Terry as his little brother . |
| 15 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 16 | An' as fer Bessie doin' all the servin' , there was only a couple o' carmen in the place . |
| 17 | It was a pretty entertaining match although there was only a couple of hundred people there . |
| 18 | When I finally roused myself and walked , unsteadily at first , to the green door and then through the other garden and the house , now silent — for our party had moved away and there was only a lady in an obviously twentieth century flowered smock at a little table in the hall — I felt the world was drained of colour and that I could not face anyone who was not Orlando . |
| 19 | Hence there was only a requirement for access from the south and this has been provided by utilising the existing slip road from Clovenstone Roundabout on Westerhailes Road for traffic joining the bypass and travelling south and by forming a new connection into Baberton Mains View for northbound traffic leaving the bypass . |
| 20 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 21 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 22 | There was only a powdering of snow in the moat , no water . |
| 23 | There was only a daily who came in to dust and wash up , a cook and a gardener . |
| 24 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 25 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 26 | There was n't prejudice amongst the public then 'cause there was only a handful of coloured here , anyway . ’ |
| 27 | When she came to teach those at Edinburgh University in 1948 , there was only a handful of trained workers in Scotland . |
| 28 | but there had been no practical progression to the redevelopment of commercial areas ; there was only a handful of local authorities which seemed capable of making design and environmental advances in planning practice . |
| 29 | Outside London there was only a handful of districts with over 10 per cent of their population living in households with a NCWP-born head Luton and Slough in the South East , Birmingham , Sand well and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , Blackburn in Lancashire , and the City of Leicester , being the highest at 21.7 per cent in 1981 . |
| 30 | There was only a scattering of snow across the wheatlands , the area which needs it most to moisten the soil for the growing season . |