Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 2 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 3 | Only a few hours and she would be with him again . |
| 4 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 5 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
| 6 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
| 7 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
| 8 | Tidying your Windows Program Manager will take only a few minutes and might save hours of frustration in the future . |
| 9 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 10 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
| 11 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 12 | The report runs to only a few lines and Treby C.J. of the Common Pleas is reported as holding that ‘ when money is paid in pursuance of a void authority , etc. indebitatus assumpsit lies for it . ’ |
| 13 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 14 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 15 | ‘ Otherwise only a few grazes and cuts . |
| 16 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 17 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 18 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 19 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 20 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
| 21 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
| 22 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 23 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 24 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |
| 25 | We used to have to catch the bus every morning and go to Chingford to school until Mark Hall was built and , erm and there was only one part of Mark Hall school built when we went there , there was only a few classrooms and er , it 's all grew up , the school grew up around us you know it 's a bit |
| 26 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 27 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 28 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 29 | And Elfed , her new husband , married only a few months and heir to a clan of claimants . |