Example sentences of "[verb] only a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new plant emits only a third of the carbon dioxide of an equivalent coal-fired plant . |
| 2 | The annual budget for 1990 was £11 million , which represents only a third of the money raised worldwide on Amnesty 's behalf . |
| 3 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beside the skill of the angler , I think most would seriously consider only a few of these factors ; perhaps the location , weather , bait , and a maybe one or two others . |
| 6 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 7 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |
| 8 | Tax inspectors , who can already ask that bone-poor lawyer how he managed to afford a BMW and a five-bedroom house , may now also check his electricity bills and his credit-card spending ; one Santorini tourist shop turned out to have reported only a tenth of its credit-card takings . |
| 9 | If this is the case , we would expect to find only a few of the many polymorphisms readily interpretable as responsive to present proximal selective forces . |
| 10 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 11 | Alternatives to this usually provide only a palliative for the rural transport problem . |
| 12 | Customers of the rival Lambeth Water Company , which took its water from the upriver source of Thames Ditton and which served houses in the same London streets , suffered only a sixth of their risk . |
| 13 | The fact that it captured only a third of the vote indicates that the public has had enough of the bickering between its two old war-horses , M Chirac and M Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 14 | The national sample of teachers spent only a third of their time interacting with groups : the bulk was divided between whole-class and individual interactions . |
| 15 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 16 | We know only a little about how , in this more secular society , we should try to minimize the damage for people going through the grieving process . |
| 17 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 18 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 19 | I was able to study only a few of these birds but Brosset 's ( 1978 ) research on the Malimbus weavers of the Gabon forests has usefully extended the story . |
| 20 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 21 | ‘ I understand only a little of what you say . |
| 22 | D. Each year the farmers plough only a few of their fields , but they do this in a slow rotation , leaving the sown grass for several years , as a long ley . |
| 23 | German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside . |
| 24 | There are probably many reasons for this and I shall mention only a few of the important ones . |
| 25 | The FIS claimed that the government 's latest figures on the number of arrests made in June represented only a tenth of the actual total . |
| 26 | Whatever the prototypes , such variations as Byrd 's on ‘ The Carman 's Whistle ’ , ‘ Sellenger 's Round ’ , ‘ The Woods so wild ’ , Farnaby 's on ‘ Woodycock ’ and ‘ Up tails all ’ , to mention only a few of those in the Fitzwilliam Book , are masterpieces . |
| 27 | There is space to mention only a few in this account , but all the unsung heroines the current Society members say THANK YOU . |
| 28 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |
| 29 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 30 | Already , the official ration provides only a third of people 's needs . |