Example sentences of "only a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 2 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 3 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 4 | Even though there was only a year between the two boys , Charlie looked on Terry as his little brother . |
| 5 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 6 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 7 | Royal dock-yard workers considered themselves lucky if their pay was only a year in arrears . |
| 8 | Costain is also expected to take a pick-axe to its dividend , only a year after its £77 million rights issue . |
| 9 | Only a year after the invention of balloons , a book was written describing a voyage , by balloon , to the newly discovered planet Uranus . |
| 10 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 11 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 12 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 13 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 14 | From St. Peter 's he went to Selby in 1836 , but stayed there only a year before returning as incumbent of Chadkirk Chapel in Romiley , where he served until his death in 1862 . |
| 15 | Such a move offered the possibility of a major confrontation between executive and legislature over the contentious issue of abortion only a year before the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 16 | The dream process is thus not only a way of rehearsing new experiences but of commenting on them and resolving conflicts . |
| 17 | He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything . |
| 18 | In either case it is only a way of ascertaining what is the scope of the representation . |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with it — it 's only a way of saying they think I 'm pretty . |
| 20 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 21 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 22 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 23 | Anyway , they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer . |
| 24 | The straw hats they 're seen in here are only a fraction of the collection they 've amassed at home . |
| 25 | Only a fraction of these Kurds have any confidence in an independent Kurdish state , but Turkey has previously denied them even cultural freedom . |
| 26 | Since this shop has the reputation of being the best for designer clothes , its customers tend to pay more than at other branches — but still only a fraction of the retail price . |
| 27 | Only a fraction of Rozanov 's wonderful improvisations had been captured at the end of the tape . |
| 28 | But they said the number was only a fraction of what it used to be . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 30 | Belemnites vary from small fossils a centimetre or two long to large specimens tens of centimetres long : of course these are only a fraction of the size of the living animal , with their tentacles extending well beyond the guard . |