Example sentences of "is only [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory .
2 It is only relatively recently that the imbalance has been corrected and this has been mainly due to oil from the North Sea , resulting in import savings and export earning .
3 However , it is only comparatively recently that feminists have begun to raise the issue more generally within the women 's liberation movement .
4 It is only comparatively recently that they have all been brought together . ’
5 A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them .
6 Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories .
7 Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study .
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