Example sentences of "only [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 32 | Volunteers need only provide a few hours of their time a week to be trained as a tutor . |
| 33 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 34 | These are superimposed on the main curve , and only last a few decades , but can have deviations on the radiocarbon axis of a century or so ( fig. 7.5 ) . |
| 35 | Some only last a few minutes . |
| 36 | Very large numbers of blood cells are required — human red blood cells only last a few months — and there are few stem cells , so an enormous amplification is required . |
| 37 | The 34-year-old star of Bonfire Of The Vanities has had the implants — which only last a few months — twice before . |
| 38 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 39 | Mutation studies have until very recently only detected a few defects . |
| 40 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 41 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 42 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 43 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 44 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 45 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 46 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 47 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 48 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 49 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 50 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 51 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 52 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 53 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 54 | Well , I mean Brody may be able to survive by not actually only having a few months between doing it and being revived I think . |
| 55 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 56 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 57 | It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds . |
| 58 | It will only take a few hours of your time . |
| 59 | It would only take a few minutes . ’ |
| 60 | It will only take a few minutes , certainly . |