Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The increase had been won only after a long struggle .
2 We show that position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of the Ea d gene occurs only with the Long construct ( 8/8 transgenic mouse lines , over a range of copy numbers , 1-30 copies ) ; in contrast , the Short constructs are subject to position-dependent effects .
3 Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging .
4 The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative .
5 In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world .
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