Example sentences of "[vb past] only a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 4 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 5 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 6 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 7 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 8 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 9 | It was typical of his thorough approach that after Arsenal won 7–1 at Wolverhampton , he spent nearly two hours at the team talk analysing what led up to Wolves ’ one goal , much to the dismay of the players , who expected only a brief meeting after such a handsome win . |
| 10 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 11 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Belinda risked a cautious glance at him , but met only an unreadable profile . |
| 13 | As many of the viruses , including those of man , attacked only a single species of host , investigation was a problem . |
| 14 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 15 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 16 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 17 | As for cars , a study of twenty-five countries concluded that a 10 per cent fuel price increase produced only a 3 per cent improvement in fuel economy . |
| 18 | Even the hysterical anti-Catholicism stirred up by Titus Oates , inventor of the so-called Popish Plot of 1681 , produced only a minor squall . |
| 19 | Elisabeth 's throat had gone into spasm and as she fought to inhale draughts of air she produced only a chilling , inhuman stertorousness . |
| 20 | It was the first time I had heard orderly 's German : a rich hybrid language spoken with any English local accent which often achieved wonders when the phrases of classroom or grammar book produced only a blank expression and a shrug of the shoulders . |
| 21 | I WAS disgusted to read that the inquiry into the Windsor Castle fire produced only a one-and-a-half-page report writing it all off as an unfortunate accident . |
| 22 | Using a stricter definition of a case of depression produced only a small difference in depression prevalence between these two age groups ( 4.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively ) . |
| 23 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 24 | Moreover , a comparison of the names of all rural oil workers with those of fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma in 1979–83 ( ascertained for another study ) produced only a single match . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 26 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 27 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 28 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 29 | Swedish international Anders Limpar made only a brief substitute 's appearance in that victory at Selhurst Park , but his popularity was underlined by the reception he was given by Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park . |
| 30 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |