Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

Only a few years ago a middle western college circulated a request for a teacher of interior design.

Only a few other people -- very important people -- knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks.

Only a few days after moving into the White House.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.

Only a few individuals in the Soviet Union dared to defend ' traitors ' like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, and those who had dared were inevitably punished.

Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.

Only a few months later, Karl Schwarzschild found a solution to Einstein field equations, which describes the gravitational field of a point mass and a spherical mass.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

Only a few species are arboreal-the North American gray fox, the closely related Channel Island fox, and the raccoon dog habitually climb trees.

Only a few, trusted people are aware of it, such as Batman and other members of the Justice League, Superman's cousin Supergirl, and Clark's childhood friend Lana Lang ( In pre-Crisis stories, Lana did not know but their friend Pete Ross did, unbeknownst to anyone — including Clark ).

Only a few interior valleys and coastal strips are flat enough for soil accumulations of consequence, however.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Only a few educated Romans with antiquarian interests, such as Varro, could read Etruscan.

Only a very few Protestants believe in the infallibility of ecumenical councils, but they usually restrict this infallibility to the Christological statements of the first seven councils.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Only few scholars have argued against Paul's authorship.

Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain.

Only in occupations relating to agriculture, forestry, and school teaching was a rough parity approached, and as few as 6 percent of Finns worked in jobs where 40 to 60 percent of workers were of the opposite sex.

Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden epileptic seizure.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

For decades, the letters page advertised an inexpensive portrait of Neuman (" suitable for framing or for wrapping fish ") with misleading slogans such as " Only 1 Left!

Only with the demilitarization in the most recent decades has this started to be a problem for the town.

* Only player to post a top ten finish in at least one major championship in five different decades.

Only in the last decades of the century did troubadour activity explode.

* Only player to play in the NHL in five different decades ( 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s )

Only after a series of technical advances spanning decades did video tape editing finally become a viable production tool, up to par with film editing.

Only in the last decades of the 20th century were foreigners allowed to visit the country, and only then in limited numbers.

Only in the last couple of decades have these three branches of clave theory begun to reconcile their shared and conflicting concepts.

Only in the last few decades of the 20th century did a significant number of historians begin to include the American Indian point of view in their writings about the wars, dealing more objectively with the US government's failures and emphasizing the impact of the wars on native peoples and their cultures.

Only in the last two decades have archaeologists been given access to do archaeological work in the areas once ruled by the Zhang Zhung.

Only a couple of decades later, political events resulted in rail companies operating across two jurisdictions where there had previously been one.

Not unless you have never, ever, broken even a minor law and gotten away with it, fudged a bit on your taxes or violated any of the Ten Commandments .’ “ Only a few decades ago, none of this would have been happening.

Only in recent decades ( after Saunders retired ) has the strip centered more on the title character, along with a regular cast of her closest friends, most of whom were introduced to the strip after 1980: Professor Ian Cameron and his younger wife Toby, advice columnist Wilbur Weston and his college student daughter Dawn, and Dr. Jeff Cory, Mary's perennial beau, and his son, Dr. Drew Cory.

Only in the last couple of decades have they been able to secure their land here, as many problems with local paper industry greatly prolonged their land struggles.

Only several decades later did the focus of efforts in Western medicine shift to curing disease.

On Guestroom, the band moves easily between decades and countries, jumping from 80 ’ s classics like The Cure's " Let's Go to Bed " and the House Of Love's " I Don't Know Why I Love You " to Steely Dan's " Only a Fool Would Say That " and then over to Serge Gainsbourg's " L ' Anamour " ( which previously could be found as a b-side on " I've Got a Feeling " single ); from The Ronettes ' early 1960s classic " Be My Baby " to Papas Fritas ' late 1990s gem " Say Goodbye ".

Only two states followed in the 1970s, but the ensuing decades saw nominations at a rate of almost one per year.

Only a few dozen specimens have been recorded in the past few decades, from scientific surveys, swordfish fishery bycatch, and sport fishers.

Only those connected with the deep past of Mellotronics or Birotronics could offer a tenuous-at-best lead on where to locate a Birotron, one person stating having not even heard the word ' Birotron ' in almost 2 decades.

Only decades later, French zoologist and paleontologist Baron Georges Cuvier ( 1769 – 1832 ) described the animals as mammals without any hind legs.

Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority, as well as They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era ( 1996 ), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge ( 2004 ), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right ( 2008 ), and " Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent ( 2012 ).

" Only black tea was produced until recent decades.

Only when the children begin to explore do they realize that despite being built and furnished in magnificent style, the castle is suffering from decades of neglect.

Only the habanera had sung lyrics, and the guaracha definitely predates the habanera by some decades.