Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largesse the NHS received in an election year was predictably short-lived and the settlement for 1993 is only 0.8 per cent above the inflation forecast . |
| 2 | The membership fee for 1987 is only — £2.75 — ( over 60 's and under 16 's — £1.75 ) for which members receive three copies of Medau News ; an Annual Report ; full information , reduced rates and priority bookings for all events in the Medau calendar , including day and residential courses and rallies ; certain trading privileges and full voting rights . |
| 3 | The UFW 's current membership of 15,000 is only a sixth of its total in the 1970s . |
| 4 | ( To place this figure in some sort of context , the BBC drama department 's output for the whole of 1991/92 is only 275 hours . ) |
| 5 | His statement — ‘ A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . |
| 6 | The potential net pay of the basinal carbonate unit is too thin to be of interest as a reservoir because the total thickness of the unit in Tønder-2 is only 3 m . |