Example sentences of "it [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 3 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 4 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 5 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 6 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 7 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 8 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 9 | It needs only a couple of well-publicized mercy flights to the United States and appropriate patriotic breast-beating to ensure that liver transplant units spring up like desert flowers after the rain . |
| 10 | ( Since this is so filling , it needs only a small green salad to accompany it . ) |
| 11 | Although the BPVT is a language test , it covers only a relatively narrow range of strictly linguistic abilities — that is , comprehension of single vocabulary items . |
| 12 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 13 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 14 | It has only a small interest in furniture at present , having built up an enthusiastic stock market following with an unbroken record of sales and profit growth in bathroom and kitchen equipment since its was founded in 1979 . |
| 15 | The list itself is secret , although it is a fair bet that it contains only a few genuinely brilliant minds , and fewer still who are likely to rock the boat . |
| 16 | Opened up , it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist 's hand holding a supplicatory top hat , above the characteristic signature . |
| 17 | But those who bought the book from the human interest angle may have been disappointed because it contains only a couple of references to my condition . |
| 18 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 19 | If they got in before ten it cost only a pound . |
| 20 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 21 | Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots . |
| 22 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 23 | The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured . |
| 24 | To the early Bolshevik leaders it seemed only a matter of months , if not days , before first Europe and later the rest of the world joined the Soviet and other socialist states . |
| 25 | It seemed only a matter of time , therefore , before the spending cuts and restrictions already imposed on the ILEA were followed by more drastic action . |
| 26 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 27 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 28 | It happened only a mile from the Metrocentre shopping complex where on May 9 last year several IRA incendiary devices were planted in stores , some going off but causing only minimal damage . |
| 29 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 30 | 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 . |