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I was recently told by a native speaker that both of these sentences are
correct:

> ちょっと **しか** 時間がないから行けない  
>  ちょっとの時間 **しか** ないから行けない。

Does where the しか attach not matter in this case? I feel like the meaning of
both sentences are essentially the same. Perhaps, its like the difference
between the English sentences "I only have a little time" and "I have a little
time only"?
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grammar particle-しか
Interchangeability of the position of しか?
It doesn’t change the meaning, but the first sentence sounds much more
natural. The problem with the second sentence is not so much the position of
しか as the noun phrase ちょっとの時間. It seems to me like a clumsy translation of
“(a) little time”.

It sounds much less unnatural when used with で as in the following example,
though.

> ちょっとの時間で済ませる。
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