Example sentences of "only [verb] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we need only to establish a rough and preliminary guide . |
| 2 | and there 's twelve hours so we 'll only need a thousand and two hundred |
| 3 | A Lynx will only do a hundred and eighty mile an hour ! |
| 4 | I mean I only paid a hundred and sixty pound a month but I mean |
| 5 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 6 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 7 | An Australian tour only requires a 25 or 26-man squad from New Zealand , with replacements only three hours away . |
| 8 | It was becoming clear , at any rate to Griffith if to nobody else , that in a world where practical materials only reached a small and highly irregular fraction of the strength of their chemical bonds , the weakening mechanism , rather than the bond . |
| 9 | An ordinary page printer can , of course , only produce a black and white image which can incorporate a few levels of grey , perhaps up to 16 for a 300dpi PostScript printer . |
| 10 | Right tailgating , saying come on you old bastard get out the way , you 're only doing a hundred and ten , what 's the matter with you . |
| 11 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 12 | that 's erm , that 's a slip road what you , and then , your next lane you stay in that lane , only use a right and then if you want to overtake you go into right and then back into right |
| 13 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 14 | I 'm up in court next week on a shoplifting charge , but I 'll only get a suspended or something like that . |
| 15 | So I thought perhaps matey only had a small and large . |
| 16 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |
| 17 | Most bakers can only offer a dozen or so cakes because it 's just a small part of their business . |