Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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1 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
2 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
3 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
4 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
5 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
6 | No hyenas , no kudu , no oryx ; only a few eagles in a place called Scotland and , unbelievably , hardly any kites . |
7 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
8 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
9 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
10 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
11 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
12 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
13 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
14 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
15 | particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air . |
16 | A distinctive feature of the Dolls ' House was that almost without exception every item in it was specifically commissioned and an integral part of the whole gift — only a few pieces in the house were found in the antique trade or private collections . |
17 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
18 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
19 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
20 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
21 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
22 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
23 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
24 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
25 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
26 | So there are only a few foxes in the neighbourhood of the colony and they can only raid the margins of it . |
27 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
28 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
29 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
30 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |