Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
| 2 | only for the first few days |
| 3 | But in sub-Saharan Africa , for example , television is only for the privileged few , whereas radio surpasses all other media in terms of audience . |
| 4 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 5 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 6 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
| 7 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 8 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 9 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 10 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 11 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 12 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 13 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
| 14 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 15 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 16 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 17 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 18 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 19 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 20 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 21 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 22 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 23 | Only in the last few months of his pontificate , before his promotion to York , did Bothe recognize the duke 's local interests by appointing ducal servants to office within the bishopric , not only at Crayke ( which lay within the duke 's sphere of influence in the forest of Galtres ) , but within County Durham itself , where Gloucester 's retainer John Redmane was made bailiff of Bishop Auckland . |
| 24 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 25 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
| 26 | The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers . |
| 27 | The more palatable impression of retirement peacefully spent in the warmer climes of retirement homes on the south coast ( or now the more exotic coastline of southern France and Spain ) is available only to a privileged few . |
| 28 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 29 | Whereas historically it was expensive , rare , and available only to the privileged few , mainly mathematicians and scientists , now anyone can own and use one . |
| 30 | It is , however , unseen and unsuspected by travellers along the road and its charms are known only by a relative few who have discovered its existence during their wanderings in the area . |