Example sentences of "[adj] only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 2 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 3 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 4 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
| 5 | What a pity then , that only a meagre 11,768 people watched it . |
| 6 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 7 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 8 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 9 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 10 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 11 | In general only a small proportion of the specialised product enterprises involved the women of the family with a high involvement in North Yorkshire ( 100% ) and Wester Ross ( 67% ) . |
| 12 | Well I mean if you had twenty or thirty that 's only the same only a little bit different , that 's all |
| 13 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 14 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 15 | Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning . |
| 16 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 17 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
| 18 | Before 1772 only a little ale-house stood here , on a sandy waste . |