Example sentences of "were only [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 2 | However , when JS opened their first self service shop in Croydon in 195O , there were only two types of film available — a permeable film and a moisture-proof film that could be used to wrap products such as biscuits . |
| 3 | There were only two types of search — " Books about something " or " Specific books " ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 4 | Until recently there were only two categories of computer art ; bitmap graphics and vector graphics . |
| 5 | The course consisted mainly of volunteers for ‘ hostilities only ’ , most of which were only 18 years of age . |
| 6 | There were only rare moments of poise and calm as in Henry Herford 's Qui Tollis or the choruses opening Sanctus . |
| 7 | In China there were only 300 miles of railway in 1900 , although the figure reached 5,200 miles by 1910 . |
| 8 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 9 | There were only three episodes of acid gastro-oesophageal reflux without associated oesophageal distention , too few to allow us to comment on the effects of acidification alone . |
| 10 | Previously , from the time of the late Roman emperors to the late Middle Ages , coins had borne representations of rulers , but these were only generic images of royalty rather than individual portraits . |