Example sentences of "we [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 2 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 3 | In this document , therefore , we list only a selection . |
| 4 | We hear only a fraction of this animal chatter . |
| 5 | We know only a little about how , in this more secular society , we should try to minimize the damage for people going through the grieving process . |
| 6 | As we live only a short distance from the Thames , we have to keep a net over the pond , as two years ago we lost 18 fish to a heron . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've only a yard and a bit out the front . |
| 8 | I know we 've only a small garrison left , but he ca n't get in and you 're hardly a runaway slave , no matter what de Raimes intended in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ Getting back to more important matters , we 've only a limited supply of food and water , so I do n't think we dare spend too much time here . |
| 10 | Ah we 've only a wee bit to do . |
| 11 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 12 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 13 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |
| 14 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 15 | We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results , let alone of predictions . |
| 16 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 17 | We have only a very limited amount of it on this planet , and to get the most from your life you need to fill it fruitfully . |
| 18 | We have only a small staff . |
| 19 | We have only a water tanker this week , so no showers . |
| 20 | ‘ We were late starters in Italy ; we have only a minute presence , ’ Ribas says . |
| 21 | As yet we have only a very limited understanding of how we might set about determining ‘ the depth of the pragmatic context which is necessary ’ for interpretation . |
| 22 | Sometimes , particularly in some types of written discourse , we have only a very general or limited knowledge . |
| 23 | It 's sometimes limited if the winds are strong and we have only a few experienced sailors on holiday . |
| 24 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 25 | Now , we do n't know how long the interview went on , it 's quite likely we have only a snippet of the conversation . |
| 26 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 27 | The comparison was only partial , since we considered only a selection of possible stylistic variants . |