Example sentences of "the [noun] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 2 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 4 | Correct parrying requires of the defender only a simple movement of the wrist . |
| 5 | After managing to hold out for several months against Paul 's pressurising , she had agreed to the engagement only a few days before this trip . |
| 6 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 7 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 8 | The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ? |
| 9 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 10 | Within the fragments only a limited amount of variance in the ordering of the tales is possible ; rather more diverse is the order in which the fragments can be and are found to be arranged . |
| 11 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 12 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 13 | But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this . |
| 14 | Although at the moment only a handful of agencies have planning departments , planning is a fast-growing area in advertising and not only advertising-management consultants are beginning to recognise the importance of the planner in many aspects of commerce . |
| 15 | There is at the moment only a caretaker and his wife . |
| 16 | The shapechangers had left the planet only a few days before , having prepared the castle for their return . |
| 17 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 18 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
| 19 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 20 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 21 | The radio transmitter , a surprisingly small , modern affair , occupied its own bracket on one wall , which was foot-thick whitewashed stone like the others , the chill only a little alleviated by the portable bottled-gas heater alongside the desk . |
| 22 | To approach a lake with delicacy and quietness , to blend in with the background and , once the bait is in the water only a rod 's length out , to sit there with bated breath , using every available piece of cover . |
| 23 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 24 | He succeeded his brother as viscount on 14 December 1812 , but held the title only a few weeks before his own death . |
| 25 | With a new lease of energy I reached the top only a minute or two after them . |
| 26 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 27 | In the UK only a handful of county emergency planning departments ( Cumbria , for instance ) have built up resource databases in digital form and this needs to be promoted . |
| 28 | So far in the UK only a low fat spread and a range of yogurts have been launched , both containing the milk whey protein form of Simplesse . |
| 29 | There was in the UK only a moderate amount of vocational training and relatively few people with formal technical qualifications . |
| 30 | When light which is polarised in a direction making an angle a with the optical axis falls on the crystal only a fraction unc of the beam is found to be transmitted . |