Example sentences of "[was/were] only [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 2 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 3 | The Security Service reported in the war that the IFL was mainly subsidised by Leese 's private means and that the largest individual contribution , by a Colonel Macdonald of Brussels in the period for which cash books were found between September 1930 and August 1933 and from June 1937 to November 1938 , was only £5 per month with a special donation from him of £50 in November 1938 . |
| 4 | The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south . |
| 5 | The nitrogen level in the microbial biomass was only 50% of the original 1 year after clearing and remained low ; little mineralized nitrogen was lost to the atmosphere by denitrification but much may be retained low in the soil profile . |
| 6 | In Wester Ross there was only 1% of permanent grass indicating that any land considered ploughable was termed arable , whilst in Powys the steep slopes dictated that there was no other option . |
| 7 | By comparison , total expenditure on all forms of regional incentive ( Regional Selective Assistance , Regional Enterprise Grants , Enterprise Initiative Grants and Regional Development Grants ) was only £106m in 1989/90 . |
| 8 | The share of Japan 's R&D spending ( including grants to universities ) financed by the government was only 20% in 1987 , while in America it was 49% . |
| 9 | One was only 10-12ft behind the other and both men were laughing . |
| 10 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 11 | The peptide consisting of amino acids 62–171 was the smallest fragment responsible for the effect although its activity was only 13% of the intact clone ( lane 12 ) . |
| 12 | And to think that calls was only tuppence for three minutes . |
| 13 | At his death ( during yet another fast ) , his annual salary was only $1,708 plus room and board . |
| 14 | In the mid 1960s , the average income for black families was only 54% of the average for white families . |
| 15 | Few carers in the study were in employment , reflecting the earnings limit which was only £12 at the time . |
| 16 | Faldo , who took five at the next short hole , added : ‘ I was only 10ft from the flag and I was in a hole . |
| 17 | Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump . |
| 18 | Although this did not attain statistical significance in individual groups , the proportion of γ-interferon expressing intra epithelial lymphocytes in untreated coeliacs was only 25% of the value found in normal mucosa and a similar reduction was found in other groups with mucosal pathology ( Fig 3 ) . |