Example sentences of "only [adv] thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 2 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that , of the thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes annually in the United States only about thirty die . |
| 4 | For a start only about thirty or so take part , since it is organised in four-ball teams , with one professional , a celebrity who is normally from sport or show business , and two amateurs . |
| 5 | ‘ Only about thirty , ’ Carrie said . |
| 6 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 7 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 8 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 9 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 10 | Actually who stayed for mass there was only about thirty . |
| 11 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |