Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 1,274 joint ventures with foreign companies registered by the end of 1989 , only 184 were actually operating . |
| 2 | Only 70 are still in existence , living in the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland , Australia . |
| 3 | Of the 99 members elected in 1972 , only 70 were still alive at the start of 1990 . |
| 4 | In a survey conducted between 1983 and 1987 , the Independent Wildcat Working Group found that out of a group of 42 " wildcats " , only eight were genetically distinct from the domestic cat . |
| 5 | According to the Reuters news agency over half the candidates belonged to the PLA or associated organizations , although only 243 were formally identified as PLA candidates . |
| 6 | Del Monte employed in 1976 about 1,750 workers in Irapuato , Mexico , but only 120 were permanently employed . |
| 7 | Any water with a pH of below 5–6 is usually reckoned as an acid . |
| 8 | Ozone production catalysed by SO 2 is also possible through the following sequence Sulphur dioxide may also affect O 3 by absorption of radiation . |
| 9 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 10 | Only 1,781 were permanently on view . |
| 11 | THE Uranus-Neptune effect is aimed most of all at your one-to-one relationships , so 1993 is potentially a time of both great breakthroughs and disappointing setbacks . |
| 12 | In the year beginning November 1917 National Service Medical Boards conducted nearly 2.5 million medical examinations in Great Britain : of every nine men , only three were perfectly fit and healthy , while two were on a definitely ‘ unfirm plane ’ of health and strength , three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and the remaining one was a chronic invalid . |
| 13 | All the major Test playing nations are represented ( save Pakistan of course ) , the West Indies dominating with nine overseas professionals , of whom only three were actually playing against South Africa . |
| 14 | 148 Herons were built from the early 1950's , but only 18 are still flying . |
| 15 | An even lower pH value of below 2.0 was unofficially recorded during a rainstorm in Wheeling , West Virginia , in 1978 . |
| 16 | The use of guardianship was never widely taken up , however , and in 1978 a total of 138 people were subject to it , of whom only 37 were mentally ill . |
| 17 | The 200 km long island chain of the Outer Hebrides has 119 named islands of which only 16 are now permanently inhabited ( Boyd , 1979b ) . |
| 18 | Of the seven wars with France that can be counted between 1690 and 1815 , only one was indisputably a war about colonies , but of course all of them affected the colonies and their inhabitants . |
| 19 | Sixty five ( 89% ) had a normal haemoglobin concentration and only 15 were still taking oral iron . |
| 20 | This sale of over 500 of the finest works from the 10,000 volume Epstein Family Collection include : a first edition , first issue of Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit of which only 250 were privately printed ( est. $25–35,000 ) ; Adam Smith 's Wealth of Nations ( est. $15–20,000 ) ; Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language ( est. $6–9,000 ) ; Charles Darwin 's Origin of the Species ( est. $8–12,000 ) ; and a presentation copy of the piano score of Rhapsody in Blue , 1929 , inscribed by Gershwin to the English author John Galsworthy ( est. $3–4,000 ) . |
| 21 | However , of all these 84 advanced award-bearing courses , only 14 were specifically on language teaching or language in education . |
| 22 | Of all that hundred , only two are theoretically capable of producing the extremely intricate molecular structures that are needed to process energy in the way that is required . |
| 23 | Of these eighteen schools , only two are still in existence — St. John 's , Boston Spa , and the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
| 24 | Of the five big recent City fraud cases , only one was satisfactorily concluded ( the first Guinness case ) , and only two are still in the land of the living . |
| 25 | Of the other members , only two were completely new to the problems of local government structure . |
| 26 | Of the 655 ‘ leaf-spring ’ Cobras built ( including the 75 original 260s ) , only 61 were officially listed as being for European consumption , and of course not even all of those were for Britain . |
| 27 | He also pointed out that in a survey of 1,000 " organic " farms , only 400 were wholly free of pesticides and fertilisers . |
| 28 | Only 400 were still active in 1887 , and five years later 600 soup-kitchen meals were served to starving ‘ jet ’ children in a single month . |
| 29 | In 1987 , for example , 2,275,000 senior middle school pupils sat the examinations but only 617,000 were subsequently enrolled in the tertiary sector ( Ethridge 1988 : 193 ) . |
| 30 | Of the other 16 families who took part in the original occupation , just six are still involved . |