Example sentences of "was only a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | there was only a few things that we would |
2 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
3 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
4 | It was only a few minutes . |
5 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
6 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
7 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
8 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
9 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
10 | The house was only a few minutes ' drive away from the river . |
11 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
12 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
13 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
14 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
15 | Unfortunately , when Beth was only a few feet away , Matthew raised his head and his eyes met hers . |
16 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
17 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
18 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
19 | The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago . |
20 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
21 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
22 | In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines . |
23 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
24 | The extreme ultraviolet power was only a few watts , but it was adequate to detect molecular hydrogen . |
25 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
26 | Grandson Richard 's ear was only a few inches away . |
27 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |
28 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
29 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
30 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |