Example sentences of "only a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fisons is to continue taking peat from the remaining bogs over which it has extraction rights for thirty years , leaving only a two foot layer of peat . |
| 2 | You 're only a two foot imp , cos er unlike me as a man being six foot |
| 3 | no , I 'm sure one of you says it was seventy for the coast road , it 's only a two way traffic |
| 4 | Erm but obviously that was only a two metre mix . |
| 5 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 6 | This simply gives you , it 's only a two page handout , it gives you some idea of the sort of motivations from what people have written about them . |
| 7 | Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale . |
| 8 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 9 | Regarded as a step in the process of transitional to civilian rule , which would culminate in presidential elections scheduled for 1992 , the local elections recorded only a low voter turnout , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 10 | There remained only a narrow gauge track , reminiscent of an Emmett railway and called the Meusien , that was designed to supply the wants of a peacetime garrison , and the second-class road that ran alongside it for some fifty miles from Barle-Due . |
| 11 | That is still only a combined 5% share of the total holdings of mutual funds . |
| 12 | The traditional design has only a front cutting edge and is still one of the best tools to use between rows of tiny seedlings . |
| 13 | Despite such premonitions , chamber 3b is only a standard guard room , with piles of bones , bolts and the remnants of furniture . |
| 14 | Only a Legal Service Commission with executive powers could do the necessary research and co-ordination job . |
| 15 | I think I shall have to get is a decent FM radio , I use a radio more than a tape actually in the car , but mine 's only a long medium wave job . |
| 16 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 17 | Oh we left and oh we were all excited about going on what a great big boat and it was in fact only a small water boat . |
| 18 | Shurston was only a small country town — or large village . |
| 19 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 20 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |
| 21 | With only a small admission fee , the large layout is mainly directed towards youngsters of all age groups but adults will definitely find much of interest . |
| 22 | After purification treatment , the process water can be stored in elevated tanks and fed by gravity to the machine , or it can be pumped directly with only a small balancing tank overhead . |
| 23 | She wore a light travelling raincoat , and was carrying only a small leather bag . |
| 24 | Thus , the population as a whole should require only a small risk premium , much smaller than that required by executives in an individual company who may face personal disaster if the project turns sour . |
| 25 | Yeah , it 's only a small estate agent |
| 26 | Taking into consideration the circumstances in which many of these deaths occurred , we believe that there will be only a small health gain from reducing mortality . |
| 27 | It 's only a small body kind of thing . |
| 28 | Very often one individual with only a small time commitment can carry out the initial investigation and appraisal aspects of a project , but once the scheme is under way the resource level may have to be increased in order to cater for the client 's time-scale . |
| 29 | Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs . |
| 30 | However , it is only a partial PR system . |