Example sentences of "is only [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 2 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 3 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 4 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 5 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |
| 6 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 7 | I do n't know , but I er , no I think I do n't know I 'm not you know , my experience of pension funds is it 's , it 's you know is only in the last two years really , I 'm er . |
| 8 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 9 | But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels . |
| 10 | *It is only in the last 15 years that the accumulated evidence has been strong enough to conclude that the regular consumption of up to four standard drinks a day may reduce the risk of coronary disease by as much as 50 per cent . ’ |
| 11 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 12 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 13 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 14 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 15 | It is only in the last 40 years with the growth of commuting that the towns on the outskirts — like say Arnold — have developed and grown . |
| 16 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 17 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |