Example sentences of "is [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 2 | It is only in the twentieth century that theorists have attempted to produce a version of democracy in which popular participation is treated with suspicion , if not regarded as positively undesirable . |
| 3 | It is only in the sixth form , apparently , that pupils will work for examinations . |
| 4 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 5 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 7 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 8 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 9 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 10 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 11 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |
| 12 | But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels . |
| 13 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 14 | It is only in the last 40 years with the growth of commuting that the towns on the outskirts — like say Arnold — have developed and grown . |
| 15 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 16 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 17 | *It is only in the last 15 years that the accumulated evidence has been strong enough to conclude that the regular consumption of up to four standard drinks a day may reduce the risk of coronary disease by as much as 50 per cent . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know , but I er , no I think I do n't know I 'm not you know , my experience of pension funds is it 's , it 's you know is only in the last two years really , I 'm er . |
| 19 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 20 | It is largely in the last decade that banks have modified their traditional role of borrowing from individuals to lend to industry , and have started lending massively to individuals themselves too . |
| 21 | ‘ But the question whether the gross profit resulting from a particular transaction arose in or derived from one place or another is always in the last analysis a question of fact depending on the nature of the transaction . |
| 22 | Elsewhere time is also in the third person , and the field of utterance is concentrated on the Poet alone , his fears and hopes : experience has taught him ‘ That Time will come and take my love away ’ ( 64.12 ) . |
| 23 | Darlington 's John Bradley ( Bath University ) is also in the third spot in the 100m butterfly , with Tynemouth 's David Warren in fifth place . |
| 24 | And it is really in the last decade that credit cards have been sold as a major source of credit ; and that American banks have tried to sell people loans here . |
| 25 | Reactor 3 is now in the fifth week of a 14-week outage , with work on schedule . |
| 26 | The product is now in the last stages of beta testing with 19 customers chosen by BT , and Phonelink chief executive Trevor Burke claims there has been a 95% take-up rate . |
| 27 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 28 | My mother is now in the third year of her relationship . |
| 29 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 30 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |