Example sentences of "only a [num] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 2 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 3 | The ship 's gun BOOMED ! and the shot fell only a hundred metres away . |
| 4 | The wood was only a hundred paces away , but the sweat-streaked mare was blown and slowing . |
| 5 | Lesser Bayonne is bourgeois and compact , and contains the town 's two unexpectedly good museums , the Musée Bonn at and the Musée Basque , which are only a hundred yards apart . |
| 6 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 7 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 8 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
| 9 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 10 | Er , with reference section , perhaps describes all parts of the system , and the index is very useful , even though it 's only a dozen pages long , your manual . |
| 11 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |