Example sentences of "still only [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 2 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 3 | I 'll come back to that in a moment because we still only enrol a rather tiny proportion of those active in our sport but to go back to the point about training . |
| 4 | The National Consumer Council report Credit and Debt ; the Consumer Interest ( May 1990 ) noted that the number of mortgage repossessions still only represented a tiny proportion of all people with mortgages . |
| 5 | There remained very large groups — such as the blacks and rural poor who still only scraped a living . |
| 6 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 7 | However , the very elderly still only represent a minority , approximately 1 per cent of the total population . |
| 8 | The analysis still only concerns a small region contained within thin tubes around the homoclinic orbit . |