Example sentences of "only [verb] a [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 75 per cent you see 124 mph , yet flat-out only adds a further 4 mph . |
| 2 | Further , in this particular case , not only had the Controller seen fit to over-rule his Director , but had only permitted a mere four days recuperation period to allow his fallen agent to recover from his injuries . |
| 3 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 4 | The total size of the claims resulting from such an incident might well be enormous , even though the computer program itself may have only cost a few hundred pounds . |
| 5 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 6 | airports Authority in their own estimate is that terminal five will only add a further seventeen million road users each year by the year two thousand and fifteen . |
| 7 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 8 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 10 | Work carried out in the area of ergonomics takes account of the fact that most drivers only have a few tenths of a second to give an order or read information . |
| 11 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 12 | A spokesman said staff only inflated a few hundred but then hurriedly blew up some more when bad weather forced the cancellation of the fly-past . |