Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 2 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |
| 3 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 4 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 5 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 6 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 7 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |
| 8 | Bear in mind that foot health has a very low rating on a " need to know " basis for a mother with a baby only a few weeks old . |
| 9 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |