Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 3 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 4 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 5 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 6 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 7 | In fact , the diamonds we see in jewellers ' windows are typical of only a small percentage of natural diamonds . |
| 8 | After 1967 , when it was no longer a separate organisation , it had to be content with only a provisional annual budget . |
| 9 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 10 | The arm spines of A. palmeri are very different from Mortensen 's specimen ; they are thick with a very distinct hook , the arm spines of A. otteri are slender with only a small hook , like those of the Ingolf specimens . |
| 11 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 12 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 13 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 14 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 15 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 16 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 17 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 18 | The third vulnerable group of the population are the very elderly with only a state pension . |
| 19 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 20 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
| 21 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , IPC as proposed is applicable to only a relatively small number of pollutants . |
| 23 | It is interesting that the anion-cation charge transfer is so marked in and and that they are stable in only a few inorganic solvents — eg liquid . |
| 24 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 25 | At higher Re the flow becomes turbulent in only a small fraction of the total length and so the variations in flow rate are again too small . |
| 26 | It is true that Edinburgh University is active in more than one of the earth science sub-fields — geology per se , geophysics , geochemistry , mineralogy , geomorphology etc. — whereas some universities are strong in only a single sub-field , such as palaeontology . |
| 27 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 28 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 29 | It also meant that in 1213 , and again in 1215–17 , the French king was able to take the war to England , a thing unheard of only a generation earlier . |
| 30 | Each of those four nations er really ought to test the software pretty thoroughly before they hand it over but because er we could n't afford four lots of test equipment we said right , ship your software out , in tested to only a modest level and it 'll all be tested centrally in the Deutsch Aerospace facility . |