Example sentences of "been [verb] only [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 2 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 4 | In the US , some observers point out that single-mode fibre has been produced only on a small scale and the technology is not proven . |
| 5 | To ease the credit policy , the Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates to their lowest level since November 1964 after chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that January 's and February 's surge in growth may have been caused only by a mild winter after all . |