Example sentences of "if only [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 2 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 3 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 4 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 5 | If only a few people go there , perhaps you can buy it . |
| 6 | If only a few births occur to teenagers who are under 18 years old , then the infant mortality of the " under 20 " maternal age group may be dominated by the lower mortality at maternal ages 18–19 , which may explain the apparent " anomaly " of the Danish data . |