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• He is the only doctor for miles.
• The only people in the stadium were the fans: no players, coaches, or officials.
• Only the cat sat on the mat. The dog never did.
• The only cat sat on the only mat.
• The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
• He is the only trombonist to recruit.
• Motley's the only wear.
• He is their only son, in fact, an only child.
• To DAD ¶ who only reared twelve children ¶ and ¶ To MOTHER ¶ who reared twelve only children
• I know some who wittingly have drawne both profit and preferment from cuckoldrie, the only name whereof is so yrksome and bail-ful to so many men.
• In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
• My heart is hers, and hers only.   The cat sat only on the mat. It kept off the sofa.
• To DAD
• who only reared twelve children
• and
• To MOTHER
• ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
• who reared twelve only children
• Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
• The cat only sat on the mat. It didn't scratch it.   If there were only one more ticket!
• The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
• He left only moments ago.
• his most only elected mistress
• I would enjoy running, only I have this broken leg.
• The cat sat on the mat, only the dog chased it off.
• The consistent finding [...] that infants who are onlies do not differ from those who have siblings despite their lesser history of exposure to differential treatment is perplexing.
• This is the only bar in town.
• There is only one right way to do it.
• This is the only road leading to Rome.
• This is the only size in which it is manufactured.