Example sentences of "in [noun] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 2 | In Kazakhstan only a quarter of those interviewed thought that life would get better next year . |
| 3 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 4 | Their dark waters , in places only a few hundred yards across , were met by vertically plunging forest , wreathed in mist , and for the most part deathly quiet . |
| 5 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 6 | BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) . |
| 7 | Most of the Auvergne is topographically part of the vast Massif Central of south-central France ; in consequence only a third of its land area is under 400m in altitude . |
| 8 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 9 | allocated in August 1991 and another £50,000 in loans only a week or so ago . |
| 10 | In Britain only a small start has so far been made . |
| 11 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |
| 12 | When we had been in Manchester only a week , a week of arduous rehearsals and long hours , Vicky could keep little food down and , frantic with worry for her , I urged her to go home now . |
| 13 | Even the most complex four coloured jacquards is in reality only a basic slip pattern , where colours are changed every two rows . |
| 14 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 15 | It is not a very demanding version of the chase , especially on Sundays , when you may well see rows of gunmen in position only a few easy yards from the hotel where they mean to have lunch . |
| 16 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 17 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 18 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 19 | Long afterwards , in fact only a year or so before his death , at a party after the London premiere of his ballet Poème de l'Extase , John sat up until about four in the morning , in a mood of black melancholy , talking to his friend Peter Rosenwald about the misery of a homosexual life . |
| 20 | Showers were not compulsory and in fact only a few boys took advantage of this facility . |
| 21 | There are , in fact only a limited number of sites in the world with sufficient tide range to make such schemes cost effective . |
| 22 | That month saw a new invasion alarm , as a French fleet cruised up and down the Channel under Admiral D'Orvilliers and a large French army under Marshal de Broglie was assembled at Vaussieux in Normandy , though this was in fact only a routine ‘ camp of exercise ’ . |
| 23 | But such knightly combats , whether chivalrously conducted or not , were in fact only a very small part of war . |
| 24 | The foregoing survey does not claim to be complete ; in fact only a small sample from the wide range of contributions has been considered . |
| 25 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 26 | But the absence is in fact only a dissimulation , for etymologically the word ‘ between ’ is a fusion of ‘ be ’ and ‘ two ’ . |
| 27 | Oh we left and oh we were all excited about going on what a great big boat and it was in fact only a small water boat . |
| 28 | Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds . |
| 29 | It has been claimed by some that the apparent warming trend was in fact only a reflection of the " urban heat island effect " , because most of the records come from cities . |
| 30 | Nature is an reality independent of mind , man is in fact only a small cog in the machine . |