Example sentences of "for only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carruthers hit an uneaten 64 in their 120 for two and they then dismissed Boroughbridge for only 42 . |
| 2 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 3 | He showed severe left neglect on the conventional measures of line bisection and line cancellation , and in a new measure ; when asked to detect the presence or absence of a small crack on either side of two-dimensional block shapes , he detected the crack for 37/40 shapes with a crack on the right , but for only 5/40 shapes with a crack on the left . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Part-time workers accounted for only 7 per cent of the employed population in France and between 10 and 12 per cent in the former FRG during the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 6 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 7 | In the third quarter of 1920 , council health workers were responsible for only 512 of the 4424 visits to expectant mothers , and 11,329 of the 27,062 visits to children ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 12 October 20 ) . |
| 8 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 9 | THE hostile £290 million takeover bid by Airtours for its rival holiday operator , Owners Abroad , lapsed yesterday , as the bidder received acceptances for only 35.18 per cent of the target . |
| 10 | and I 'll say to him , right , okay , we 'll give you the five per cent r reduction for only eight months of the year . |
| 11 | It was decided to plan for only eight accidents . |
| 12 | The Kiwis struggled after losing half their batsmen for only 44 , including opener John Wright for a second-ball duck and skipper Martin Crowe for 18 . |
| 13 | On an average day in 1999 there were 49,979 people in prison in England and Wales , in a prison system which had room for only 44 , 179 . |
| 14 | In 1981 , the union 's position was even weaker : UMW mines accounted for only 44 per cent of national coal production ; again , there were large stockpiles of coal ; and generally , there was a more conservative , anti-union climate : |
| 15 | Holders Waringstown flashed a warning that they will not be easily deprived of the trophy , sweeping out Phoenix Park for only 45 in Dublin and winning by nine wickets . |
| 16 | Where it falls down is the support for only 256 real colours in this version , albeit at a resolution of 1024x768 and dithered to over 16 million with the Tseng Labs ET4000 video driver loaded . |
| 17 | there were 2,208 people on board with lifeboat accommodation for only 1,178 ; additionally many lifeboats left partially filled . |
| 18 | ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer . |
| 19 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 20 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 21 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 22 | The result of such a small staff is that the bureau is open to the public for only 16 hours a week . |
| 23 | A VGA or compatible graphics card is required but , as VGA provides for only 16 colours , the image on screen will appear stippled . |
| 24 | At present local taxation accounts for only 14 per cent . |
| 25 | British-made goods were hit particularly hard , accounting for only 1,815,670 of the 2,863,302 articles hallmarked — a drop of 14.1 per cent . |
| 26 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 27 | His attention had been drawn away for only five or six seconds and there were surely only half a dozen shops that she could have entered . |
| 28 | Fortunately for Johnson , his kick just missed the posterior of a leading English League official , Derek Lloyd of Worcester and he was banned for only five matches . |
| 29 | Like A. Aldyss I have had my tank for only five months , containing Mollies , Guppies and Swordtails . |
| 30 | He was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean for only five years , between 1984 and 1989 , but besides organising a number of exhibitions and doing all the other things that Keepers do , he managed — quite extraordinarily — to produce this massive three-volume catalogue of the 785 later sculptures then under his care . |