Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] only [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN all-weather soccer pitch made of supertough plastic is out of action after only six months ' use . |
| 2 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 3 | With $36 million in the box-office after only five weeks ' release , and the movie yet to travel outside America , big profits are guaranteed . |
| 4 | I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration . |
| 5 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |