Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming pre-tax profits of £230m , before one-off property income , Sears shares are on a p/e of 10.5 at 118p , a 10 per cent discount to the market , and are on a yield of over 6 per cent , exceeded only by Next and Storehouse . |
| 2 | Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light . |
| 3 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 4 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 5 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 6 | Data records held in sequential mode can be read only from first to last and all steps in any analysis run must be accomplished in a single ‘ pass ’ through the file . |
| 7 | Immigration was mentioned only in fourth place , followed by urban crime , and then the environment . |