Example sentences of "[v-ing] for only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 2 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 3 | About 500 people attended the lunch in the hotel ballroom where there was seating for only 400 . |
| 4 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 5 | Knowledge is not storage but activity and making sense of it will be very impoverished if this involves looking for only one account of it , the so-called ‘ literal meaning ’ , at the expense of all the other ‘ potential ’ meanings . |
| 6 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 7 | Inspectors now will be assigned to testing for only six months at a time to prevent further loss . |
| 8 | British-made goods were hit particularly hard , accounting for only 1,815,670 of the 2,863,302 articles hallmarked — a drop of 14.1 per cent . |
| 9 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 10 | Such a move is opposed by the Serbs , who , although accounting for only one third of Bosnia 's population , have laid claim to more than two thirds of the republic 's territory . |
| 11 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 12 | Photo-Me 's identity card venture is still at an embryonic stage , accounting for only 2 ½%; of turnover . |
| 13 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a danger , ’ he says , ‘ that with the chairman sitting for only one year , we could end up with short-termism . |
| 15 | If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit . |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't sit there all day holding the rod and feeling for only one or two bites , which is all you get on the water I fish , ’ and , ‘ I 'd like to see anyone catch fish from my local cut when touch legering . ’ |
| 17 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |