Example sentences of "[verb] for only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 2 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 3 | It was decided to plan for only eight accidents . |
| 4 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 5 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 6 | Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 per cent of the school roll . |
| 7 | According to Wang Yangzu , deputy director of the agency , these businesses account for only 4 per cent of polluters but are responsible for over 60 per cent of the total industrial pollution caused . |
| 8 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 9 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 10 | Women account for only one in four junior managers and at senior management this drops to one or two per hundred . |
| 11 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 12 | Fixed contract workers , on the other hand , are predominantly men : women account for only 37 per cent . |
| 13 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 14 | However , retail sales account for only 40 per cent of consumer spending . |
| 15 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 16 | Early post-implantation mouse embryos will develop in static culture if explanted at the primitive streak stages but normal development is sustained for only 24 h or less ( 22 ) . |
| 17 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 18 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 19 | Sandison called over to Franco but asked for only one glass of the special liqueur . |
| 20 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 21 | He scored 109 as the West Indies reached 225–3 in their second innings after being dismissed for only 183 and following-on . |
| 22 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 23 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that automatic directions under RSC Ord 25 , r8 and CCR Ord 17 , r11 provide for only two medical experts . |
| 25 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 26 | About 500 people attended the lunch in the hotel ballroom where there was seating for only 400 . |
| 27 | But he lives for only two things — the Royal Navy and the Ariadne . ’ |
| 28 | John Talbot lives for only two things — his daughter and his son . |
| 29 | Crossed aphasia in dextrals , that is aphasia resulting from a right sided lesion , is extremely rare ( Brown and Hécaen , 1976 ) with confirmation at autopsy of a strictly unilateral lesion reported for only four cases at the time of writing ( Brust , Plank , Burke , Guobadia and Healton , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |