Example sentences of "up only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
| 2 | This painful catalogue makes up only a small part of the inventory of the ‘ art ’ of the restaurant … |
| 3 | Usually , proctoscopy is only performed on known gonorrhoea contacts and these make up only a small proportion of female patients seen in the clinic . |
| 4 | The film as film , as ‘ text ’ , as visual artefact , takes up only a small place amidst this kaleidoscope of angles — and I have n't even touched on the economic aspects of production and reception , such as box office pressures , state subsidies , distribution and exhibition . |
| 5 | In the Khartoum region , female enrolment outstripped that of males at secondary school level , though women make up only a small proportion of students in the technical secondary schools . |
| 6 | The injected cells remained healthy within the liver parenchyma and corrected the phenylalanine defect for the normal life span of the mouse ( even though the cells made up only a small percentage of liver cells ) . |
| 7 | Were the kinetic energy of the wind to be converted by the shock into radiant energy , the localized H-H objects could expect to take up only a small fraction of the wind 's energy , in which case the radiated power far exceeds that available . |
| 8 | Agency workers and their close equivalents make up only a small minority of the temporary workforce and most of them are concentrated in a very narrow range of occupations , particularly those involving office or secretarial skills . |
| 9 | Although most enterprise unions are affiliated to a number of national labour federations , industrial or trade unions which include workers from many different firms make up only a tiny proportion of Japanese labour unions . |
| 10 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 11 | If you feel like a gentle lakeside stroll Grasmere Lake is to hand , or for the more energetic , Helvellyn , the most climbed peak in England , rises Up only a short distance from the village . |
| 12 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |