Example sentences of "is only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 3 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 4 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 5 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 6 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |
| 7 | Beam penetration is proportional to accelerating voltage , and is only a few tens of microns at 18 kV , so 30 µm thin sections are adequate . |