Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the good ones might remain for only a matter of months . |
| 2 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 3 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 4 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 5 | It was decided to plan for only eight accidents . |
| 6 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 7 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 8 | A pristine Globe Swift sold for only $ 28,500 . |
| 9 | A Baptism of Christ by sixteenth-century Venetian artist Carlotto Carliari sold for only FFr30,000 ( £3,000 ; $5,300 ) , within its estimate , a seventeenth-century oil on copper of the Holy Family attributed to the ‘ entourage ’ of Sassoferrato went for FFr29,000 ( £2,900 ; $5,100 ) and a Virgin and Child attributed to eighteenth-century French painter Jean Restout went under the hammer for FFr 22,000 . |
| 10 | Estimated at $20–30,000 it sold for only $16,000 ( £8,900 ) to a private collector . |
| 11 | Some of Thomson 's holidays to Spain sold for only £25 a week or £35 for two weeks , and 500 Intasun Holidays were offered for £39 each . |
| 12 | However , retail sales account for only 40 per cent of consumer spending . |
| 13 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 14 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 15 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 16 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 17 | Until now Japan has been the rich world 's youngster : people 65 and over still account for only 11.5% of the population . |
| 18 | Biocontrol agents , dominated by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis , even now account for only ca 1 per cent of this market . |
| 19 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |
| 20 | In theory it would be possible to significantly reduce the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , remembering that women aged 38 years or over account for only 3% of births , but 23% of Down 's births . |
| 21 | Since these two countries account for only 1.2% of the HLCA expenditure in the EEC , the UK 's position is anomalous . |
| 22 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 23 | The railways account for only 7.5% of passenger travel in Britain ; their share of the freight market is 8% . |
| 24 | According to Dr Mobius , over 75% of the world 's population lives in such countries , which currently account for only 11% of the world 's GNP and less than 5% of the capitalisation of the world equity markets . |
| 25 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 26 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 27 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 28 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 29 | Is it not the pride of the industry that although sales in Britain account for only 8% of the world total , British recordings account for 22% ? |
| 30 | In Jersey City , where non-Hispanic whites account for only 35% of the population , a 34-year-old Wall Street anti-tax whizz-kid runs for mayor against the local machine . |