Example sentences of "at [art] [noun sg] of only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take advantage of saving 25% by ordering all 4 volumes at the price of only £52.80 . |
| 2 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 3 | All this was achieved at the cost of only two S.A.S. soldiers killed — Captain Roy Bradford and a trooper who was a mechanic for the jeeps , both casualties in the one incident — and seven men wounded . |
| 4 | A good idea can therefore be brought to a successful and polished conclusion in a very short time at the cost of only a few sheets of paper and with the minimum of effort . |
| 5 | They do not occur equally ; modern carbon consists of 99 per cent of 12 C and 1 per cent of 13 C , whereas 14 C is present at the level of only one part in a million million . |
| 6 | A downcast Souness was left to reflect on the opportunities lostsaid : ‘ I was feeling disappointed during the game at the prospect of only getting one point . |
| 7 | In June 1937 Hoskyns died suddenly , at the age of only 52 . |
| 8 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 9 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 10 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 11 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 12 | Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres . |
| 13 | It is one of the closer stars , at a distance of only 36 light-years , and is 115 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 14 | Tau Ceti is a close neighbour , at a distance of only 12 light-years . |
| 15 | Quite ordinary buildings — a Kirin beer hall built in the 1930s , for example — or a small stand of camphor trees , survived at a distance of only 700 metres from the epicentre . |
| 16 | The Transport Committee was persuaded to order a prototype from English Electric at Preston , at a cost of only £2,000 . |
| 17 | The store plans to cater for about 10 trainees at a time at a cost of only £29.95 for three hours . |
| 18 | At the lower setting you gain another 80 nm at a cost of only 9 kts in cruising speed . |
| 19 | The Warner Bugs Bunny Club will be showing films and cartoons , including old favourites and new releases such as Back to the Future III and Babar the Movie , from about 9.30am at a cost of only £1.50 per person . |
| 20 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 21 | John Bartholomew of Putsham , evidently tenant of the Alfoxden home farm , was persuaded that the Wordsworths should take the house for a year , at a rent of only £23 , and on 14 July 1797 an agreement was hastily drawn up in Poole 's ‘ villainous hand-scrawl ’ and signed by Bartholomew and Wordsworth . |
| 22 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |
| 23 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
| 24 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 25 | A long linear fissure opened abruptly on 13 May , well down on the eastern slopes of the volcano , and at a height of only 1,800 metres . |
| 26 | A Racomitrium -rich prostrate Calluna heath has , however , been noted at an altitude of only 200 m on Mullach an Reidhachd , North Harris ( NB090143 ) ( Brown 1986 ) . |