Example sentences of "for only [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time .
2 The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted .
3 Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics .
4 And full Parliamentary divorce , which did , accounted for only a handful of divorces .
5 Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week .
6 Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated .
7 But I looked for only a moment .
8 I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home …
9 New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect .
10 Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom .
11 Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand .
12 Some horses who suffer chronic anxiety due to poor management or handling , already have a sufficiently high background of stress for only a single stressful incident , like injury , illness , or a new home , to precipitate them into colic or some other illness .
13 Ford is budgeting for only a slight improvement on last year 's 1.6m market and has abandoned hopes of sales reaching 1.74m , while Peugeot Talbot is projecting a standstill .
14 This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year .
15 He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds .
16 In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ?
17 Lonsdale 's history of women poets through the century allows them to be understood against developments in the poetry written by men whose dominance of fashion was challenged for only a short time toward the end of the period .
18 But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC .
19 A new sole will cost from £7–£15 , depending on the material used , or about £4 for only a heel replacement .
20 Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months .
21 Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride .
22 The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time .
23 This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers .
24 In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation .
25 Why does the snow settle for only a short time on the north west coast ?
26 Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next .
27 If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over .
28 We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised .
29 Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products .
30 Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less .
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