Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] only a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the good ones might remain for only a matter of months . |
| 2 | Today , Mr Rafsanjani can count on only a handful of technocrats in the Majlis ; even his own ministers sometimes desert him . |
| 3 | The fur seal may have up to a hundred , but the Hamadryas makes do with only a handful . |
| 4 | The OECD says that the American economy will grow by only a shade less than 1% in 1991 , while Japan will manage nearly 4% and Germany ( despite the difficulties of unification ) 3% . |
| 5 | The review of RAWP estimated an equation in which standardised mortality ratio has an elasticity of roughly 0.5 , so the same 10% increase in standardised mortality ratio would lead to only a 5% increase in funding target . |