Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] only [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 2 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 3 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 4 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 5 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 6 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 7 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 8 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 9 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 10 | The PS share of the vote fell from 34.76 to 17.59 per cent in the first round of voting and it won only 54 seats ( 252 in the outgoing National Assembly ) . |
| 11 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 12 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 13 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 14 | After some discussion on back-dating , the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live . |
| 15 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 16 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |