Example sentences of "[adv] only [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madame Martin , she had heard the doctor tell Madeleine when she listened outside the door : probably only had a week to live . |
| 2 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 3 | As a party , it really only exercised a modicum of power in relation to the Stormont administration . |
| 4 | But this layout seemingly only lasted a comparatively short time , before it too was swept away , together with the buildings which had survived the previous changes and the fort defences . |
| 5 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 6 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 7 | There only existed a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of increase in the rate of inflation . |