Example sentences of "only [art] [det] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , only a few hours to go … |
| 2 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 3 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 4 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 5 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
| 6 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 7 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 8 | It took only a few minutes to pack their belongings . |
| 9 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
| 10 | The map shown in Figure 4.1 took only a few minutes to produce , and is easily amended and redrawn . |
| 11 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |
| 12 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |
| 13 | They are one of only a few companies to offer stair carpeting in a choice of stocked ranges . |
| 14 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |
| 15 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 16 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 17 | GEOGRAPHY is taught to Standard Grade , Higher Grade and Certificate of Sixth Year Studies levels and we are one of only a few schools to offer GEOLOGY Higher Grade . |
| 18 | It took only a few seconds to order six droids and a goods transporter to the 65th level cargo bay . |
| 19 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 20 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 21 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 22 | By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel . |
| 23 | Syphilis has long been labelled ‘ the great imitator ’ and there are only a few clues to prod the examining doctor into thinking of the correct diagnosis rather than some other condition . |
| 24 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |
| 25 | A middle-aged woman passed along the street on roller skates , and across the road a fat man was fixing a notice , ‘ Only a few days to go . |
| 26 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 27 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 28 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 29 | I have only a few weeks to live . ’ |
| 30 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |