Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 2 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 3 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 4 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 5 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 6 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 7 | The Government has said only a full end to violence is acceptable . |
| 8 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 9 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 10 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 11 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 12 | The individual gets to keep only a constant fraction of each pound of pre-tax income above OA . |
| 13 | The imagination must replace the lost steeples : the NE chapel of St Sepulchre , topped with the chapel of St Pancras , survives in its transeptal position , but the matching SE chapel of St Mary has lost its upper storey : the adjoining chapel of St Augustine to the W , and its upper chapel of St Michael , are now only crags ; the Bishop 's tower at the NW , late and ill-built , has fallen in , though some of its elevation remains ; and the SW tower of St John has left only a matrix on the W wall . |