Example sentences of "[vb past] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 2 | One group of subjects ( labelled ‘ Control ’ in the figure ) experienced only reinforced conditioning trials . |
| 3 | In the preceding decade London and other large metropolitan cities recorded massive population losses ; medium-sized cities either lost people or experienced only slow growth . |
| 4 | So that er , Woodrow could experience a full sense of self , to actually relate back to his himself , which er , Wilson er , experienced only as a child . |
| 5 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 6 | The hold which the mountain had on Richard 's imagination , and indeed on the attention of all who lived in its shadow , was not related to its height or its beauty , but to the succession of mysteries which Lochnagar revealed only to those who climbed it . |
| 7 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 8 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 9 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 10 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 11 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 12 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |
| 13 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 14 | Microscopic examination in haematoxylin and eosin stained sections revealed only minor alterations except in one concordant and clinical slightly affected Crohn 's disease twin pair in whom overt signs of inflammation were present in both twins . |
| 15 | Multivariate analysis revealed only two independent predictors of 2-year mortality : comorbidity ( RR=3.06 per level of severity , 95% CI 1.66 to 5.63 , p=0.0003 ) and haematocrit <35% ( RR=2.86 , 95% CI 1.36 to 5.83 , p=0.005 ) . |
| 16 | The registration statistics revealed only 4.5% as non-standard entrants , and this may be a slightly exaggerated figure . |
| 17 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 18 | Fighting ceased only with the advent of darkness — but the respite was to be brief . |
| 19 | The tax in kind for 1921–2 realized only 150 million pudy , half of the total collection for 1920–1 . |
| 20 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 21 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 22 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 23 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 24 | However , Gary is assured of a permanent place in Palace annals , because he became only our third player ever to appear in all the different numbered outfield shirts , when he wore the number three Jersey at Barnsley on 23 August 1986 . |
| 25 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 26 | In the same year that Accrington Stanley became only the second team to leave the league through bankruptcy — Aldershot F.C . |
| 27 | Couples not only finished top of the US rankings but became only the eighth player in history to win the Vardon Trophy , awarded for the lowest stroke average , and the PGA Player of the Year . |
| 28 | The 28-year-old Dutchman , winner in 1988 and 1989 , became only the third player to be crowned three times after compatriot and mentor Johan Cruyff and Frenchman Michel Platini . |
| 29 | PETER EBDON yesterday became only the third player to compile two 147 breaks in professional snooker tournaments . |
| 30 | The 28-year-old from Liverpool became only the third player to simultaneously hold both the world and UK titles when he triumphed at Preston a year ago . |