Example sentences of "had only [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |
| 2 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 3 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
| 4 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 5 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 6 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 7 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 8 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 9 | A few things remained in the bureau drawer ; the odds and ends that accumulate in drawers : an engagement diary for 1981 which had only a few entries ; an old wallet , empty except for an out-of-date RAC membership card . |