Example sentences of "[noun] only [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on information of cycle length and cycle irregularity in the period before insemination only 9% of the women in our study required clomiphene to regulate their cycle . |
| 2 | ‘ By an odd coincidence only 8% of those who had been on strike got increases while 92% of those who had worked during the strike got increases ’ . |
| 3 | Firstly , most patients nowadays have the diagnosis made at laparoscopy , yet in this study only 15% of cases were diagnosed at laparoscopy and this increased to only 29% when endometriosis was the principal diagnosis . |
| 4 | In state schools only £38 per pupil is spend in secondary schools and £25 in primaries . |
| 5 | Thus , whereas more than half of the straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books were made within 10 minutes , in the case of early or rare books only 45% of straightforward deliveries from the Main Building took under 20 minutes , and nearly half ( 47% ) took more than 35 minutes . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc saw 9.8% growth ; Hewlett-Packard Co grew 13% , IBM only 21% against its target of 50% ; Silicon Graphics grew sales the most — by 34% . |
| 7 | In Wester Ross only 29% of income came from the farm and in North Yorkshire only two of the nineteen farms provided more than 50% of the total taxable income . |
| 8 | His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five . |
| 9 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |
| 10 | According to their figures only 19% of those who start work as clerks are still employed in clerical work by the time that they are 30 . |
| 11 | IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive . |
| 12 | The US has just 6% of the world 's population but consumes 30% of the world 's energy — compared with India where 20% of the global population use only 2% of the energy . |
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| 14 | In this predominantly part-time area only 47% of wives would have tackled an emergency themselves yet 74% indicated a desire to be able to do more on the farm . |
| 15 | Temporary leaflet only means of supplying essential information . |
| 16 | Common grazings played an important part in most farm enterprises : on average only 6% of the farm was owned by the farmer/crofter . |
| 17 | As chart 21 shows , Japanese firms pay on average only 30% of their post-tax profits as dividends , higher than in Germany but lower than in Britain or America . |
| 18 | Similarly Becker et al reported that if their ulcerative colitis patients had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations , 39% developed pouchitis v only 19% among those patients who had not had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 19 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 20 | In a year of minimum rainfall only 17% of the total falls as rain in the 5 month period June to October . |
| 21 | In Europe only 42% of the energy produced is converted into useful energy . |
| 22 | Despite the ramp 's size only 16ft of 64ft of lip was platformed course the dosh had run out . |
| 23 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 24 | Hospital staff were particularly suspect : a riot took place in Manchester in 1832 after surgeons removed the head of a dead child , and three years later in Oxford only 16% of cholera victims could be induced to enter hospital at all . |
| 25 | Mr Byers wants to know : Why did VSEL pay only £1 for Lairds ? |
| 26 | A reserve game cost only 50p per child and £1 adult . |
| 27 | When forest is cut in Amazonia , cations from the burn de-acidify the soil , releasing phosphorus from iron and aluminium compounds , but leaching rapidly removes the cations , only 18% of the standing crop potassium remaining after 3 years , while in crops only 3% of the nitrogen was incorporated ( only 1 % in the edible parts ) , 12% of the calcium ( 1% in edible parts ) 24% , potassium ( 4% in edible parts ) and 5% of the phosphorus ( 1% in the edible parts ) . |
| 28 | By the end of the third year only 50% of the original starters have not left . |
| 29 | In the previous year only 53% of buyouts came from corporate restructuring . |
| 30 | ACCORDING to a recent survey only 35pc of party goers in the North find cold-sores a major turn-off while in the South only 35pc do n't . |