Example sentences of "[noun] only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 3 | The presbytery of Hamilton 's proposed solution was a repeal of the nineteen sixty three act and a reversion to the nineteen thirty three act which required from parents only a profession of faith . |
| 4 | The young emerge from their mother 's birth canal only a month after conception . |
| 5 | In its place only a sense of duty and a wish to be of help to the people she had come to love kept Shelley from despair . |
| 6 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 7 | Although microchips give machines only a smidgen of intelligence , that can go a long way when sensibly applied by human masters . |
| 8 | In the UK only a handful of county emergency planning departments ( Cumbria , for instance ) have built up resource databases in digital form and this needs to be promoted . |