Example sentences of "[adj] only [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 2 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 3 | In general only a minority of holidays are affected in this way and most changes to the published arrangements are small and whenever possible these changes will be advised at the time of booking or as quickly as possible after they occur . |
| 4 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 5 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |