Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , you would be responsible for the first £50 only . |
| 2 | For the first year only . |
| 3 | Villages now a mere half-hour apart by car could then be prohibitively far away : the daughter of an Essex farm horseman was taken to see his parents across the county boundary in Suffolk for the first time only at the age of 14 . |
| 4 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 5 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 6 | Erteco , for example , broke even for the first time only last year . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 8 | The comic , who had a history of heart trouble , had become a father for the fourth time only last year , when his second wife Tracey gave birth to their daughter Charlotte . |
| 9 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |