Example sentences of "only [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 3 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |
| 4 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
| 5 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 6 | Steel shutters barricaded most of the shops and those that were open displayed only a few boxes of tired vegetables and strings of plastic toys . |
| 7 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 8 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 9 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 10 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 11 | For the programme pick-up , Basil Hilton and Tony Geluch were using a single condenser microphone suspended centre stage and only a few feet above the conductor 's podium . |
| 12 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
| 13 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 14 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 15 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 16 | Only a few feet from the side of the ship a sucking swirl dimpled the water ominously . |
| 17 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 18 | In fact they have to be trained — starting with distances of only a few feet from , and within sight of , the loft . |
| 19 | He sat only a few feet from the screen , perched on the edge of the bed , a study in confusion and misery . |
| 20 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 21 | Almost all the crops are cash crops and there are only a few cattle in the area . |
| 22 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 23 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 24 | Well so was Agnes — it was probably her local being only a few blocks from her Georgetown address . |
| 25 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |
| 26 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 28 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 29 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 30 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |