Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week .
2	The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day .
3	DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany .
4	In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched .
5	For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent .
6	He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides .
7	A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole .
8	Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy .
9	Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US .
10	SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder .
11	The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month .
12	The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years .

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