Example sentences of "[adv prt] only [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , gross profit was down only £2m to £94m . |
| 2 | As a consequence of this policy loop ileostomy is now used in only 22% of operations . |
| 3 | In 1974 , in seven randomly sampled London practices , Heller and Rose found blood pressure recorded in only 10% of men and 18% of women aged 20–39 . |
| 4 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 5 | Function words take up only 4% of the vocabulary , or about 30% if weighted by frequency , yet they are accountable for almost 50% of the errors . ’ |
| 6 | Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year . |
| 7 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 8 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 9 | In a non-randomised study in Ipswich among a group of 209 diabetics discharged to general practitioner care with agreed standards of medical follow up only 25% of patients had had their urine tested or blood glucose value estimated by their general practitioner in the previous two years . |