Example sentences of "only [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 3 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 4 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 5 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 6 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 7 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds . |
| 9 | Unlike many other contracts , the courts have not exercised a strong influence over the framework of this relationship and the common law only imposes a few terms upon leasehold parties . |
| 10 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 11 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 12 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 13 | Typically , the net contains many nodes , but each node only has a few inputs : N is quite small . |
| 14 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 15 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 16 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 17 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 18 | However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs . |
| 19 | we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them |
| 20 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 21 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 22 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 23 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 24 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 25 | Well I have only got a few courts , |
| 26 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 27 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 28 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 29 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 30 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |