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Example sentences of "only [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Reasonably complete and reliable economic statistics of any kind became available only slowly even in many of the more developed European states ; and in any case economic issues usually played only a subordinate role in policy-making .
2	He then announces , only somewhat out of breath , that the law guarantees compensation to Mrs. McLoughlin , whatever anyone else might think .
3	At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation .
4	Huy knew that it was because the policeman could trust him only so far after his confession .
5	There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind .
6	A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life .
7	Adult males retain a pride only long enough to father one batch of young females for the pride .
8	Eligible for reduced rates , he spent his time riding round Australia , stopping only long enough to dry-clean his clothes and to buy another rail ticket .
9	She brought her hands away from her face only long enough for one look before continuing into the hall and up the stairs .
10	Then , as efficient as ever , ‘ You 'd better have my phone number here just in case you need to tie up with me on anything , ’ she decided , and , giving her number , paused only long enough for Fabia to take it down and was then asking , ‘ Well ? ’
11	Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night .
12	It finished only just ahead of the Alliance poll of 26 per cent ( which produced for them only seventeen Liberal and six SDP seats ) .
13	Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a .
14	He was only just back in the house when he heard his Mum draw up in the car .
15	Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom .
16	Sao Paolo in Brazil will be only just behind with 23.6 millions .
17	Only just out of their teens , they can — and do — earn millions of dollars a year , mostly with exclusive contracts to international cosmetic and fashion houses .
18	Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight .
19	‘ I 'm sorry — I 'm only just out of bed .
20	‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’
21	The way in which the Prioress 's Tale hangs like a shadow over the pilgrims is reflected by the continuation of the rhyme-royal verse form from the tale into the following link : a feature matched only once elsewhere in the Tales , by an apparently repressed stanza at the end of the Clerk 's Tale ( IV : 1212a — g ) .
22	It made the meeting with the woman , whom she had often heard referred to but whom she remembered meeting only once briefly in New York less daunting .
23	But that will be put to the test today by Hartlepool , who have lost only once away from home all season .
24	Former Plymouth players , goalkeeper Martin Hodge and defender Ryan Cross , are included by Hartlepool who have lost only once away from home this season .
25	Throughout he had kept Orrell , beaten only once previously in the League this season , on course to maintain their title challenge .
26	Leicester , scoring only once more despite concerted attacks , were left to ponder on what might have been .
27	We began by saying that William Titford moved house comparatively infrequently , and within a fairly limited area ; he and Mary Ann found new accommodation only once more in their married life together — as the children grew up and left home the parents moved to 48 Freegrove Road , Holloway , just off the Caledonian Road .
28	The Democratic party has won the presidency only once out of the last six elections since 1964 .
29	In a series of private discussions with congressmen on Capitol Hill , Mr Major was asked only once directly about Ulster and replied that progress was being made in getting people round the table for negotiations .
30	The mountain , in the Pakistan Karakoram , is sometimes known as Masherbrum Far West , and appears to have been climbed only once before by an Italian team .