Example sentences of "[adv] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What you have here is basically a single neuron with a of weights , the weights on the circles here are the binary elements in the random access memory .
2 Like other Pyrenean spas , it is basically a single street of high hotels or ‘ residences ’ strung out between the mountainside behind and the river below .
3 Rather , as was mentioned , it is concerned in several ways with parts of such circumstances , often enough a single condition .
4 The second related issue is whether it is appropriate to set down a single structure which puts topics under specific headings , given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject .
5 The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth .
6 This involves going as far down a single path as possible .
7 It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . "
8 Perhaps a single atom of interstellar hydrogen might strike each once a year ; such was the only breeze here between the stars .
9 Relying on a small bureau with perhaps a single film recorder is , as Murphy 's Law always points out , a somewhat foolish activity .
10 At about 1pm a single shot was fired from a rifle , hitting the gunman in the upper neck and face .
11 So a single set can cope with either standard .
12 What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support .
13 The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once .
14 These BSL interpreters appeared to be using only a single register , and this corresponded to a signed version closely tied to the English of the original message .
15 Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated .
16 In general , matrices are rectangular ; but of particular importance are matrices having equal numbers of rows and columns — i.e. square matrices — and those having only a single row or column , which we call vectors ; both types are special forms of rectangular matrices .
17 Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages .
18 Given the right resources and planning , the King 's Cross project in association with Thameslink 2000 will improve rail links between Kent , Sussex and Hampshire and the north-east of England and will allow travellers from one region to visit the other with only a single change at King 's Cross .
19 5 million children in lone-parent households but this is only a single snapshot count and the number of children currently estimated to be in step-families ( between 1 and 1 .
20 Critics claim that a cholesterol test is only a single snapshot of lifestyle and can be misleading .
21 Near neighbours in genetic space are animals that differ from one another by only a single mutation .
22 It seems that official confirmation may not have been forthcoming , for the German O.K.W. records noted only a single Hurricane shot down during this day , while Müncheberg 's claim was apparently classed as a ‘ probable ’ , although it remained on his personal list of successes .
23 And the amount the tip is moved reveals the height of the protuberance , even if it is only a single atom high .
24 Only a single kid is born at a time ; twins are extremely rare .
25 Although there are three sources of input to the logogen system , there is only one set of logogens , and any word has only a single logogen .
26 Montrose , however , finding himself in such an impasse , and with the prospect of recurring battles before him , for the collector held office for only a single year before having to seek re-election , had his own solution to the difficulties which the office entailed for such as himself .
27 At least four different subjects will be studied , some for two or three years , some for only a single year .
28 As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day .
29 It was found that a glass surface … is able to absorb a detectable amount of helium … from the atmosphere ( my italics ) during only a single day 's contact with the air . ’
30 Above we looked at the affairs of only a single day ; and supposed the stocks offered for sale to be already in existence .
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