Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 2 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | The building work was not complete — indeed , the kitchen was not finished until January , and we had to survive with only a gas primus stove . |
| 4 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |
| 5 | In the shared community of sacrifice the party had undoubtedly widened its community of interest with the British people , and was able to speak for all of the people in 1917–18 as it had spoken for only an embattled half in 1913 . |
| 6 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |