Example sentences of "only a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IGCC plant achieved an energy efficiency of 45-50 per cent , compared to 37 per cent for a conventional coal-fired station with flue-gas desulphurization equipment ; and it produced 10 per cent less carbon dioxide , only a seventh of the sulphur dioxide , a third of the nitrogen oxides , and no methane . |
| 2 | But there are only a hundred of them , poorly armed , standing against any army of 42,000 troops . |
| 3 | Alternatives to this usually provide only a palliative for the rural transport problem . |
| 4 | After all , even though 10 was really only a five as a movie , and even though Arthur was an asshole , it 's pretty easy to think fondly of these made-to-Moore middle-age farces . |
| 5 | The apartments are set against a mountain backdrop and the views are superb ; it 's hard to believe that the discos , lively bars and general hustle of Benitses are only a five to ten minute walk away . |
| 6 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was only a temporary in there , like the floor and everything just a , a brown carpet because of Honey |
| 9 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 10 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 11 | It supplied only a fifth of the nation 's energy supplies , far behind oil , and was now challenged by nuclear power . |
| 12 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 13 | That is only a fifth of what ITV companies charge each other for less popular , but , less economical , ‘ quality ’ drama . |
| 14 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 15 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 16 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 17 | And , it says , ‘ only a fifth of companies provide orientation advice on the localities , schooling , commuting and general amenities ’ . |
| 18 | There are few diamonds to be found , nor is there much cocoa ; and considering the amount of space the Pacific commands it might seem a little odd ( unless one remembers the geology ) that only a fifth of the world 's proven oil reserves are there . |
| 19 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 20 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 21 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 22 | Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system . |
| 23 | Perhaps as a consequence of this , few seemed to find having to submit a report a threatening prospect , only a fifth of teachers believing that their school had felt threatened in any way . |
| 24 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
| 25 | There was a tremendous finish in the boys 1500 metres , with Matthew Knowles , of Sunderland Harriers , beating Houghton Harrier Chris Old almost on the line , the winning margin being only a fifth of a second . |
| 26 | In all the highly exposed individuals examined 96 per cent had a level in the blood less than one tenth of the toxic threshold — with the highest still only a fifth of this . |
| 27 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 28 | Only a little of it , mind . ’ |
| 29 | You need only a little of your anti cellulite massage oil — about a teaspoonful for each leg . |
| 30 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |