Example sentences of "only [vb pp] 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 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 6 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 7 | Well I have only got a few courts , |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 10 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 11 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 14 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 15 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 16 | Mutation studies have until very recently only detected a few defects . |
| 17 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 20 | ‘ We have only observed a few patches this week , ’ Fakhro said , ‘ most of it is still in the war zone ’ . |
| 21 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 22 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 23 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 24 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 25 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 26 | After a meal of meat and potato stew of which Willie only managed a few mouthfuls , Mr Fletcher returned accompanied by his two teenage sons . |
| 27 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 28 | As you can see , we have only mentioned a few fish that are possible to keep in a community set up , but the options are vast as there are a large number of species of fish to choose from . |