Example sentences of "only [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 2 | on the phone cos we only speak once a week , well I do n't think |
| 3 | deadlines , a lot of these trusts only meet once a quarter |
| 4 | ‘ We only train twice a week so Orient are obviously fitter than us , but I thought we gave as good as we got . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 6 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |