Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the forty-eight of us who had left Aubagne two months before only thirty-six were in a fit state to attempt the tests . |
| 2 | One of the birds flapped towards a tall , dead elm , whose limbs had been stripped by fierce winds until only two remained , like gnarled horns , rising from the top of the trunk . |
| 3 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 4 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 5 | After 2200 and before 0100 , 217 ( 26.8% ) of the visits were to children aged under 5 years whereas only 110 ( 14.2% ) of the visits later in the night were to this age group ( χ 2 =37.47 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 6 | The Newsons ( 1976 ) reported that 29 per cent of 7-year-olds often fight with their siblings while only 7 per cent often fight with other children , 64 per cent sometimes fight with their sibs while 32 per cent sometimes fight with others . |
| 7 | When Rice left Oxford , Lloyd Webber abandoned his history studies after only one year and followed him to London . |
| 8 | Analyzing the energy components of the transition energy , it is found in passing from the B I to the B II state , roughly 0.5–1.5 Kcal/mol of stacking energy is lost at junctions where only one strand is in the B II state , whereas 5–9 Kcal/mol are lost when both phosphates transit . |
| 9 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |
| 10 | Visit the small community of ‘ de Zaanse Schans ’ just north of Amsterdam where there once were 700 windmills though only 5 remain . |
| 11 | This might have been expected since the total amount of reactant gases shown by the equation is four moles whereas only three moles of gaseous product are formed . |
| 12 | Underlined , bold letters are used to display residues where only one sequence deviates from the consensus . |
| 13 | Environmentalists directed strong criticism at world leaders after only 15 minutes was spent discussing the environment at the Group of Seven conference in , London . |
| 14 | Nail Magic ( £7.95 ) nail strengthener , which our tester claimed gave her better fingernails after only 14 days . |
| 15 | Russells Hall estate is not typical of its immediate surroundings as only 6 per cent of the population are aged 10 or under while 52 per cent of the estate population are 50 or over . |
| 16 | Among lower professionals and managers , 40 per cent had manual fathers while only 23 per cent had middle class backgrounds — the rest having fathers with routine non-manual or intermediate occupations . |
| 17 | Sadly she had the baby on the streets whilst only eight months pregnant . |
| 18 | Rocastle , whose career has nose-dived since his £2 million move to Leeds from Arsenal in the summer , struck his first competitive goal for the Yorkshiremen after only 11 minutes — and it was enough to settle a disappointing clash . |
| 19 | And the diagram is much simpler than the real neocortex , which contains 10,000 cells where only 25 are shown here . |
| 20 | At the end of the 1970s , 29 million days were lost in strikes whereas only 2 million days were lost in strikes last year . |
| 21 | On the very exceptional occasions when only two instruments of a kind are mentioned in livrets , these turn out not to be part of a mixed ensemble , but some kind of special effect . |