Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 2 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 3 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 4 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 5 | As this was a population study the results on lung function and respiratory illness depended on the majority of children who were term babies and had normal birth weight , with low birth weight or premature infants accounting for only a minority . |
| 6 | Assuming that the density m of the disrupted cylinder remains constant , h and m can be eliminated from equation ( 5 ) , to give This equation is functionally identical ( differing by only a factor of order unity ) to the analogous equation derived by Zahnle using a wholly different argument . |
| 7 | Many factories are working at only a fraction of capacity . |