Example sentences of "only [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 3 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 4 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 5 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 6 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 7 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 8 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 9 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 10 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 11 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 12 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 13 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 14 | Well I have only got a few courts , |
| 15 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 16 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 17 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 18 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I 've only had a few . |
| 20 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 21 | Mutation studies have until very recently only detected a few defects . |
| 22 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 23 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 24 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 25 | ‘ We have only observed a few patches this week , ’ Fakhro said , ‘ most of it is still in the war zone ’ . |
| 26 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 27 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 28 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 29 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 30 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |