Example sentences of "[noun pl] only an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glowering at having been woken from a satisfying doze , the guard opened the eye-level flap to find the Doctor 's eyes only an inch or two from his own . |
| 2 | A particularly crucial stage of status acquisition occurs when an individual enters social adulthood and is allowed to do things only an adult can , like marry and fight and so on . |
| 3 | In fact , they are not separate rings but one continuous spiral with its coils only an inch or.so apart . |
| 4 | If a man drinks only an alcohol made from paint or varnish or polish or acetone then he will dream of vodka . |
| 5 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |