Example sentences of "at [adj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 2 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 3 | But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation . |
| 4 | Initial research suggests that at best only a very marginal decrease in the long distance deposit of acid rain would result from a major reduction of sulphur emissions from the UK . ’ |
| 5 | Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning . |
| 6 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 7 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 8 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 9 | As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth . |
| 10 | Furthermore , because of the concentration of the Communist vote in certain traditional strongholds , they have high hopes of holding on to some 20 of their present 26 parliamentary seats , whereas the National Front and the Greens may not win any , or at best only a handful . |
| 11 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |