Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 5 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 6 | 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 . |