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Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.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

Only the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosians, the Fratres S. Ambrosii ad Nemus, had anything more than a very local significance.

Only the daytime games survived during this period ; game shows remained a fixture of daytime television through the 1960s along with soap operas, reruns, and local telecasts of old films.

Only a few local authorities have implemented the regulations, one of them being Oxford City Council.

Only in Croatia was the local variant of the Glagolitic alphabet preserved.

Only a photograph of the first specimen of this species was made at a local market by Arnaz and Mark Erdmann before it was bought by a shopper.

Only Logudoro survived to the end under local Sardinian rulers.

Only the intervention of the local police keeps her from being executed.

Only three municipalities in the county ( the town of Plainfield, the borough of Willimantic, and the Putnam Special Services District ), have their own local police departments that serve as the primary law enforcement in those areas.

Only a few mines now remain, but natural resources remain crucial to the local economy.

Only 1. 42 % were in local authority housing, with a further 12. 74 % renting from a housing association, or other registered social landlord.

Only 2. 2 % were in local authority housing, with a further 11. 5 % renting from a housing association, or other registered social landlord.

Only at this time did it have enough inhabitants to establish its own local government.

Only one store, a local florist, beat the eminent domain and was allowed to keep its store and property.

Only interference in local lobster fishing invites trouble.

Only a few Blacks were still producing charcoal, probably for local consumption.

Only scattered pilings remain, and the site is now a camp owned by the local Boy Scout council.

The only radio station licensed to a community in Hyde County, WOVV 90. 1 FM has " Locals Only Beach " music blocks playing only the music of local bands.

Only local women may compete ; they race, and their times are compared to determine the international winner.

Only a small section remained from Madeley to Silverdale, and from Silverdale to Holditch and this was for coal traffic from the local collieries.

* Only two phone lines were in operation at the local police station which was undergoing renovation.

Only a few of the twenty-four thousand Japanese defenders on the island were captured ; large numbers of local civilians threw themselves and their children off high cliffs rather than be captured.

Only some parts of Farnborough are served by two free local newspapers, The Star Courier ( published from September 18, 2008 as a combination of the former Surrey Hants Star and the Aldershot Farnborough Courier ) and The Rush, along with one local available for purchase, The Farnborough News & Mail.

To get a classification and rationing stamps, one had to appear before a local War Price and Rationing Board which reported to the OPA ( which was jokingly said to stand for " Only a Puny A-card ").