Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
2 | The issue of competence to carry out a review is critical considering that in only a quarter of all cases were outsiders much involved . |
3 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
4 | To date we 've printed several thousand pages of WP text , DTP and Graphics , all without a hitch , and with only a couple of paper mis-feeds . |
5 | The shutdown yesterday by Huddersfield 's eight main minicab firms , all Asian-owned and with only a handful of non-Asian staff , followed a fatal stabbing in the most serious incident in an outbreak of violence involving drivers and their customers . |
6 | In all three cases the method of construction was changed , with turf on a stone , or part-stone , platform at Brough and Rochester and with only a palisade at Caister . |
7 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
8 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
9 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
10 | The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles . |
11 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |