Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] only [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 2 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 3 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 4 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 5 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 6 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |