Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 2 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |
| 3 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Many animals , from sheep to starlings , breed only at certain times of year — again depending on day length . |
| 5 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 6 | Taken together , the words I hope conceal more than they reveal , and will serve only until such time as the precise formulation of your terms of reference enables you to select more apposite nomenclature . |
| 7 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 8 | His predecessor remained a formidable presence in government ( in the role of " Senior Minister " ) , and many believed that Goh 's tenure in office would continue only until such time as the former leader 's son , Brig. -Gen . |