Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] only [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of Thomson 's holidays to Spain sold for only £25 a week or £35 for two weeks , and 500 Intasun Holidays were offered for £39 each . |
| 2 | Estimated at $20–30,000 it sold for only $16,000 ( £8,900 ) to a private collector . |
| 3 | Is it not the pride of the industry that although sales in Britain account for only 8% of the world total , British recordings account for 22% ? |
| 4 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 5 | According to Dr Mobius , over 75% of the world 's population lives in such countries , which currently account for only 11% of the world 's GNP and less than 5% of the capitalisation of the world equity markets . |
| 6 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 7 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |
| 8 | In theory it would be possible to significantly reduce the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , remembering that women aged 38 years or over account for only 3% of births , but 23% of Down 's births . |
| 9 | In Jersey City , where non-Hispanic whites account for only 35% of the population , a 34-year-old Wall Street anti-tax whizz-kid runs for mayor against the local machine . |
| 10 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 11 | Mature medical students ( defined as over 23 ) account for only 2% of the medical school population . |
| 12 | He argues that AT&T 's $90-a-share bid is ‘ grossly inadequate ’ : strong language for shares that were trading for only $48 before AT&T 's interest became public . |
| 13 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time . |
| 14 | Originally about a foot long , it had been cut into two , when they made excellent cycle handlebar grips for only 3d a pair . |
| 15 | The level of investment by the BEA rose from only £92 millions in the financial year 1948/9 to £125 millions in 1950/1 and £196 millions in 1954/5 ( only about two-fifths of this overall rise being accounted for by the fall in the real value of the pound ) . |
| 16 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 17 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 18 | To take one example , if Britain stopped burning fossil fuels altogether , the world 's output of carbon dioxide — some 6 billion tonnes a year — would fall by only 160m tonnes . |
| 19 | The monthly contribution of this department ( £5,000 ) , subject to a special machine being introduced into the department at a hire cost of £4,000 per year , would fall by only 20% of its current level as a result of the reduction in the labour force . |
| 20 | ( In fact , the Durable Household Goods Index rose by only 5% in 1980 compared with a 15% rise in the Retail Price Index . ) |
| 21 | Sheep numbers doubled during this period in Wales ; Scottish sheep numbers rose by only 12% . |
| 22 | Germany 's imports from France rose by only 7% last year in D-mark terms , well down from the 13% average rise in 1988 and 1989 , even as the rate of growth in France 's imports from Germany slumped from 15% to 1% . |
| 23 | Although a 10-day strike at the Centromin mines in Peru caused the biggest weekly fall on record in zinc stocks in January 1990 , the price of high grade zinc rose by only US$15 a tonne to $1,292 . |
| 24 | On average , Labour 's vote rose by only 3% more in Tory wards where Labour started off second to the Conservatives than in seats where it was third . |
| 25 | Asia Equity , a securities firm , expects earnings to increase by only 1% in 1993 , though it is looking for 16% growth in 1994 after the lights come back on . |
| 26 | Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% . |
| 27 | Made for only $171,000 it went on to gross $8 million in the US . |
| 28 | Likewise , Borody et al found that eight ( 57% ) of their 14 H pylori negative patients not on antibiotics were taking NSAIDs compared with only 5% of their H pylori positive patients with DU . |
| 29 | As for call tariffs , 60% of those interviewed said France Telecom 's are ‘ reasonable , ’ compared with only 49% in 1991 . |
| 30 | Incompatible ABO expression , although seen in only 6% of patients , seemed to be associated with dysplasia or cancer somewhere in the colon . |