Example sentences of "only a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 2 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 4 | Only a few thousand of the 250,000 different varieties of wild flowers have been named , he explained . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 8 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 9 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 10 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 11 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |
| 12 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 13 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 14 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 15 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 16 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 17 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 18 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 19 | On the basis of relatively small samples , only a few thousand in each of selected states , it proved possible to make accurate predictions of the electoral outcomes . |
| 20 | Already , though , such a study of a community involving , perhaps , only a few thousand people brings in many elements , variables and causal links . |
| 21 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 22 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 23 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 24 | Firing visually into the dense grey packs moving across their front on the slopes opposite , only a few thousand yards off , gunners can seldom have had so superb a target . |
| 25 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 26 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 27 | Despite numerous studies published on the incidence and mortality of pancreatitis in various hospitals , only a few epidemiological studies on large populations have been carried out . |
| 28 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 29 | This ammonite has only a few strong ribs , with a number of small tubercles in addition . |
| 30 | There is now nowhere on earth which is immune from man-made changes in the atmosphere or radioactive fall-out ; only a few remaining places where no humans have trod ; and in our own islands , only a handful of inaccessible sites which have escaped some deliberate interference with their ecology . |