Example sentences of "[prep] only a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Files from Warrington , for example , were sent to Glasgow for only a sixth of the cost by road . |
| 2 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 3 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 4 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 5 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 6 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 7 | In Russia in the 1960s , which with only a tenth of the world 's railway mileage carried almost half the amount of freight moved by the rest of the world , coal and coke constituted a quarter of total freight , with other goods like petrol , oil , ore , and timber comprising only one-fifteenth each . |
| 8 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 9 | He reported that all of the formerly rampant vegetation on Krakatoa had now been destroyed , with only a few of the thicker tree-trunks still rising above the thick mantle of ash , and that there were now three major eruption columns carrying clouds of dust and pumice high into the air , escaping from three separate vents . |
| 10 | In terms of the stage of the disease , the majority were Dukes ' stage B ( 35% ) or C ( 33% ) , with only a few in Dukes ' stage A ( 12% ) . |
| 11 | With only a third of Britain 's 10,000 practices so far computerised , and practice systems costing on average well over £20,000 , 1990 will be a bonanza year for the computer industry . |
| 12 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 13 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 14 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 15 | Even so , a rise in the proportion of appliance sales on hire purchase from only a tenth on nationalisation to nearly a half ten years later enabled them to retain their share in the growing retail market for electrical goods at about the 25 per cent level which they inherited on nationalisation . |
| 16 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 17 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 18 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 19 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |
| 20 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 21 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |
| 22 | It is true that our goods sell abroad , but with our currency at only a third of its post-war value , so they should ! |
| 23 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 24 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |