Example sentences of "[prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Hawkins of Hoare Govett estimates initial dealings will see prices at between only 110p to 125p , while Robert Giles of Laing & Cruickshank believes the opening price could level around 105p to 110p . |
| 2 | Not only is a comparison between only three years potentially misleading ; there are very considerable divergences between trends in victimization and recorded crime for specific offences , which are concealed by the coincidence in the overall direction ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Dowds et al . , |
| 3 | To work this correctly you would need to keep the welt almost as wide as the main part of the sweater and have the narrow cables running between only two or three plain stitches . |
| 4 | We disagree strongly with any calculation of dosage being based on plasma half life derived from the difference between only two observations , especially if the first of them is taken early in the distribution and not in the elimination phase . |
| 5 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 6 | While no operational difficulties were reported during SeaDocs ' experiment , and while the fees per registration fluctuated between only $300 and $500 , SeaDocs failed to attract a sufficient number of traders and financial institutions to survive . |
| 7 | Simple reaction time is a fraction of the time required to react even when having to choose between only two possibilities . |
| 8 | For British Telecom and British Gas , where the perks took the form of discounts on quarterly bills , they were worth only 6.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively . |
| 9 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 10 | The president 's disappointing administrative reform will pare off public spending worth only 0.5% of GDP . |
| 11 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 12 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 13 | That was the 1988 development value but the state of London 's housing market means that it is probably worth only half that today — and Chelsea is naturally reluctant to pay . |
| 14 | Assume after the first transaction the dollar depreciates ( DM appreciates ) and was worth only DM 3.88–3.92 , then if the second customer once again approached the bank with DM40,200 and requested dollars he would receive $10,255 ( DM40,200 ÷ DM3.92 ) . |
| 15 | But the scholarship was worth only £100 and , though his school plundered its scarce resources to add £20 , it was not enough for the boy to support himself at Cambridge . |
| 16 | For example , with 10 per cent inflation , a sum of £100 saved in cash at the start of a year is worth only £100/1.1 = £90.91 at the end of the year . |
| 17 | Based on inflation over the same period , my £10 is now worth only Pounds 6.50 . |
| 18 | The cannabis was worth only £4.50 and would have made no more than six cigarettes . |
| 19 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 20 | The Queen is worth only £100 million after state assets are deducted from the Crown 's £5 billion fortune , according to Business Age magazine . |
| 21 | His haulage business went bust and he owes £120,000 on a semi in New Denham , Bucks , now worth only £80,000 . |
| 22 | Shame it 's in Mexican pesos worth only £160 |
| 23 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 24 | In the absence of precise definition , 20s. might be taken as marking the dividing line between husbandmen and labourers , were it not that at Long Preston Edmund Clarke ( nil ) was stated to be servant to Thomas Squyer , who was worth only 6s. 8d . |
| 25 | In particular , Anthony Talbot of Alton was worth only one mark , though his income was ten . |
| 26 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 27 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 28 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 29 | When he began farming on his own account in 1778 he found an open and almost barren country , much of it worth only five shillings an acre . |
| 30 | Let us further assume that the shares were and are worth only £50,000 . |