Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 2 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 3 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 4 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 5 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 6 | Given the limited number of transistors that can be integrated into a single chip computer , the RISC high-level language is implemented mainly using software , with hardware support for only the most time consuming events such as the passing of parameters in procedure calls . |
| 7 | A single kiln , for instance , probably implies a potter 's presence for only a short period in the life of a settlement some may even have been itinerant or at best semi-residential , moving on once local demand had been satisfied . |
| 8 | The usefulness of the library to the English teacher must also not be under.emphasized , although very often " work in English " calls for only the simplest of library skills from the pupil . |
| 9 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 10 | Lurgan publican Ralph Hewitt faces an election after only a few weeks as a director of Glenavon . |
| 11 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
| 12 | Offering an agenda for change during bad economic times , the 46year-old Arkansas governor harnessed his youth , dogged determination and a passion for politics to unseat a sitting elected president for only the eighth time in US history . |
| 13 | The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum . |
| 14 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 15 | The Congress Party , the biggest single group in the house , but now in opposition for only the second time since independence in 1947 , had no option but to sit in silence when the voice-vote was called . |
| 16 | Wright J. held that the agent who had no general occupation as an agent , who normally bought and sold goods on his own account and who was the agent for only the one principal , was nevertheless a mercantile agent . |
| 17 | This will be the case where , for example , a minister stays in a government department for only a limited period of time . |
| 18 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 19 | Three more tries followed to rub more salt into Trinity 's wounds and put Crusaders into the second round of the Regal Trophy for only the second time in their history . |
| 20 | Although there are many agencies operating in the domiciliary sector we have detailed utilization data for only a minority of these : home helps and the mobile meals services ( meals on wheels ) . |
| 21 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 22 | Incidentally , I trust that the fretwire used is up to scratch ; I 've recently seen a few Korean guitars with very soft fretwire which would probably need a re-fret after only a short time . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 24 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 25 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 26 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 27 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 28 | Yet to arrive at this version , Ohmann has nullified the effect of only a few transformations : those transformations used to form coordinated sentences ( cf[5] ) , relative clauses ( cf [ 6 ] ) , and comparative clauses , together with certain deletion rules . |
| 29 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 30 | A combination of a biographical dictionary of activists begun in the 1920s ( which was cut short by Stalin after completion of only the volumes covering the 1860s , 70s and a small proportion of the activists of 1880–1904 ) and the meticulous records of the Police and Justice Departments on political arrests have made possible rough estimates of the number who actually fell foul of the authorities . |