Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the reliability may mean that a tradesman only sees one example of a particular circuit board each month or even only a couple a year . |
| 2 | After a few weeks ( or maybe only a week or two , if you began with well-developed caterpillars ) the caterpillars will be fully grown and ready to become chrysalids . |
| 3 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 4 | Once and once only a finger is placed , by Svidrigailov appropriately , on the fact that Peter 's city turns people odd . |
| 5 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 6 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 7 | In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted . |
| 8 | No food since morning and then only a taste of beer and some burnt gruel . |
| 9 | Thus Nechaev forms the most important part , but still only a part , of the perennial parajournalistic debate about actuality and fiction . |
| 10 | Since this shop has the reputation of being the best for designer clothes , its customers tend to pay more than at other branches — but still only a fraction of the retail price . |
| 11 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 12 | Once a match between Cornwall and Lancashire would have included the cream of English rugby , but tomorrow only a handful of players are from top clubs . |
| 13 | It also sought agreement on the possible construction of pipelines to deliver central Asian oil and gas to Europe via Turkey , but ultimately only a declaration of intent was signed . |