Example sentences of "only [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A golf course is only rarely a paying proposition in itself : the real gain in value comes from obtaining planning permission to build in open countryside . |
| 2 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 3 | All these materials are water-soluble , but this is only rarely a limitation , because intense IR absorption by H 2 O itself makes it very difficult to use IR spectroscopy to study aqueous systems . |
| 4 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
| 5 | The line is thus only arguably a pentad Over the 10-km square , a site count reveals 18 churches , 1 cross and 7 tumuli , mounds and earthworks . |
| 6 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 7 | This is only superficially a valid question , since quasars are in every respect very different objects from stars and planets . |
| 8 | On the other hand , our log-power estimates have only approximately a gaussian distribution , and this might lead to incorrect calculation of the likelihood of local peaks . |
| 9 | The Earth is only approximately a sphere . |
| 10 | well there 's only not a great deal , I mean there 's a load in there already done , I think , is it done ? |
| 11 | Even the Beatles were only just a national phenomenon , although interest had widened outward from their music to include their somewhat innovative hair styles . |
| 12 | She felt as if he was closing a door behind them and right at this moment she would have liked to keep it open , if only just a crack , because Felipe de Santis walked round the plane and stood watching them as they came towards him . |
| 13 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 14 | It seemed incredible that it was only just a week since she 'd arrived , Luce thought . |
| 15 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 16 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 17 | Mum , this is only just a yard . |
| 18 | one of those , only just a round one to go round your neck . |
| 19 | Considering Truna 's only just a teenager . |
| 20 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 21 | The impact will not immediately be felt by the millions of borrowers on semi-fixed mortgages , whose rates are changed only once a year . |
| 22 | The RAC will suspend your membership while you are away , but only once a year . |
| 23 | But building societies paid only once a year . |
| 24 | His band play only once a month , although they 're offered 15,000 roubles per night . |
| 25 | Imagine friends that you see only once a year , say at Christmas time . |
| 26 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 27 | Eat red meat only once a week ( if at all ) . |
| 28 | At second interview however they said it was no problem to them to visit her , and that they now go only once a week , and ‘ do not mind carrying on ’ . |
| 29 | After the production had opened rehearsals were held only once a week ; it was a comparatively easy life after the work in cine-variety that most of them had done . |
| 30 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |