Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The next most common change , an improvement in staff communication , is claimed by only half of the teachers . |
| 4 | Made for only $171,000 it went on to gross $8 million in the US . |
| 5 | Incompatible ABO expression , although seen in only 6% of patients , seemed to be associated with dysplasia or cancer somewhere in the colon . |
| 6 | Priced at only £29.95 , it 's a gift you ca n't afford to miss . |
| 7 | As stated this trowel is very modestly priced at only £10.50 inc Vat ( postage and packing ( £2.50 ) and is a useful and recommended accessory for every detector user . |
| 8 | This was done by only sampling at fixed distances between points . |
| 9 | Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day . |
| 10 | One lot featuring 34 books , Cardus & Arlott 's The Noblest Game and Macartney 's autobiography among them , sold for only £80 . |
| 11 | It was disappointing , given the stress in these new regulations on quality of courses , the needs of the area and the amount of students ' contributions , that an even higher proportion of grant-aid could not be given : but the Ashby Report itself had talked of only 75% and that as a maximum , so any advance on this was an achievement , and a tribute to the District 's work . |
| 12 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 13 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |
| 14 | These eerie coincidences are very impressive when they happen to us or to one of our friends , but their improbability is measured in only picodealions . |
| 15 | An individual who voluntarily quit from his last job is estimated to have a 64% lower chance of obtaining an offer in Models I and 2 , ceteris paribus , compared with only 38% less in Model 3 . |
| 16 | Half of the cases ( 32/ 64 ) occurred in children under two years of age and 20 ( 63% ) of these had chronic diarrhoea compared with only 38% ( 12/32 ) of children aged greater than two years ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 17 | Over 700m of tunnel were driven in two weeks of March 1989 compared with only 1,000m during 13 weeks in the summer of 1988 . |
| 18 | True , there are a lot of them — 58m compared with only 3m people . |
| 19 | Recently Cohn et al found that 73% of 11 large bowel cancer patients whose tumours had lost the nm23 allele developed metastatic liver disease compared with only 20% of the remainder . |
| 20 | The Community market now accounts for 39% of all Scotch Whisky exports , as compared with only 20% on UK entry ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 21 | The royal household cost £56,000 in 1550/51 , compared with only £25,000 in 1538 /39 ; pensions and annuities ate up £20,000 ; and permanent garrisons , the navy , and the ordnance absorbed £80,000 . |
| 22 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 23 | Exports to Germany are equivalent to 15% of Holland 's GDP , 12% of Belgium 's and 11% of Austria 's , compared with only 4% of France 's and 3% of Italy 's and Britain 's . |
| 24 | In Britain almost two-thirds of 25- to 29-year-olds buy their homes , compared with only 15% in Germany . |
| 25 | Comparison of SCFA concentrations int he gut of known acetogenic animals , such as the termite , with man , shows that in the insect acetate accounts for 94% of the total compared with only 57% in the human caecum . |
| 26 | Research shows that buyers of this type of vehicle are heavily weighted towards the 35–54 age group ( 65% of sales ) compared with only 11% below 34 years of age . |
| 27 | Parents in Wolverhampton will want to know why the paperwork cost is £100 per pupil there , compared with only £30 per pupil down the road in Solihull . |
| 28 | Moreover , since last September , sterling has fallen farthest — and so gained most in competitiveness — against non-EC currencies : by 22% against the dollar and 32% against the yen , compared with only 13% against the D-mark . |
| 29 | However , in panic attacks the fear lasts for many minutes compared with only seconds or minutes in complex partial seizures ( unless status develops ) . |
| 30 | The report states that about 45% of ancient woodlands have been destroyed or seriously damaged , compared with only 10% of the Amazon forests . |