Example sentences of "it only [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the short life of the sealed unit built into each ball , it only lasted six months . |
| 2 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 3 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 4 | Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 6 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 7 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 8 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 9 | When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out . |
| 10 | Barnard Castle chief inspector Malcolm Fordy said while the percentage rise was ‘ massive ’ it only represented 300 crimes more . |
| 11 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 12 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 13 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 14 | if it only lasts twelve months |
| 15 | And it only affects certain things . |
| 16 | Firstly , of course , because it only affects high earners , i.e. those earning more than £75,000 a year . |
| 17 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 18 | ‘ But it only has 4 grams of fat , ’ came the smart reply . |
| 19 | THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women . |
| 20 | It only has two eyes but they are divided for viewing above and below the water surface . |
| 21 | ‘ Greece strongly supports a stronger role for the European Parliament , although it only has 24 seats . |
| 22 | It only has 25 lines , yet the Bill to ratify Maastricht has split the Tories like nothing before . |
| 23 | The process produces no new proteins , it only causes physical changes to existing structures . |