Example sentences of "only [num] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
2 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
3 | Only one of the many newspapers I read mentioned the fact that the assailant was black and it was with the most extreme difficulty that I was able to ascertain from reporters and policemen , who all refused to be named , that the callous passers-by were also black . |
4 | Maternal diet is only one of the many factors that can lead to fetal growth retardation . |
5 | This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena . |
6 | The polymer exists initially in the solid state where it is restricted to only one of the many conformations which are available to it as a free isolated molecule . |
7 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
8 | When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do . |
9 | While the primates comprise only one of the several orders into which the class of mammals is divided , the group is of surpassing significance because man himself is classified within this order . |
10 | Von Frisch trained a scout bee to come to a source , and then placed out new sources at equal distances from the hive , but only one at the same direction as the original . |