Example sentences of "it had only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some discussion on back-dating , the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live . |
| 2 | It had only six bedrooms , but there was enough room in the kitchens and pantries to billet an army , though they would certainly have mutinied at the conditions there . |
| 3 | At that time , Lincolnshire was the second largest county in England but it was thirteenth in terms of population ; it had only 208,557 people in 1801 and 407,222 fifty years later . |
| 4 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |
| 5 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 6 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 7 | It had only one professor . |
| 8 | It had only one room , and one window , which was heavily barred , like a prison cell . |
| 9 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 10 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 11 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 12 | Because of paper rationing it had only four to eight pages , unless it was The Times , which averaged nine . |
| 13 | When first formed it had only 12 members ; it now has 30,000 . |
| 14 | It had only three candidates and their prospects varied from slight to nil . |