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Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.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 then in fact was payment for assembly attendance, the central event of democracy ( Similarly for the period before the Persian wars, but for the very early democracy the sources are very meagre and it can be thought of as being in an embryonic state ).

(" Only If You Want To ", is an early version of " Only If ...".

Only fragments are preserved in Greek, but a complete Syriac translation of the Theophania survives in an early 5th century manuscript.

Only one country has been known to ever dismantle their nuclear arsenal completely — the apartheid government of South Africa apparently developed half a dozen crude fission weapons during the 1980s, but they were dismantled in the early 1990s.

Until it closed in early 2011, a McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota claimed on its receipts to be the " World's Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru ," sending food from their strip-mall location to a drive-through in the middle of a parking lot.

Only minimal efforts had been expended through the early 1980s to improve existing and, according to both Sudanese and foreign observers, largely inefficiently operated transport facilities.

Only Khartoum International Airport was equipped with modern operational facilities, but by the early 1990s, Khartoum and seven other airports had paved runways.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

Only one written record, a fragment, exists attesting to her worship and an early Alcman hymn exists that identifies Thetis as the creator of the universe.

FSS satellite technology was also originally used for DTH satellite TV from the late 1970s to the early 1990s in the United States in the form of TVRO ( TeleVision Receive Only ) receivers and dishes.

Only a few station groups ( other than the Fox Television Stations ) that own a Fox station that operates a news department have actually expanded their newscasts into early evening time periods over the years ( among them, Tribune Company and Clear Channel Communications ).

Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated ( though only one since the early 1930s ): Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), and Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ).

Only one who possesses a rational method of interpretation — an early hermeneutic — could divine the truth or falsehood ( thus the sanity ) of a statement.

Only the richest could afford the early imports.

Only the EMI archives and some early reinforced concrete factory buildings ( notably one by Evan Owen Williams, later knighted ) remain as The Old Vinyl Factory.

Only few early buildings remain in Placerville: as was the case in most mining towns, Placerville suffered more than once from fires that burned a large part of the town.

Only a handful of his sermons were printed, most in the early 19th century.

Other items in early British punk fashion included: leather jackets ; customised blazers ; and dress shirts randomly covered in slogans ( such as " Only Anarchists are pretty "), blood, patches and controversial images.

Only a handful of properties dating from this early period remain extant.

Tracks on the demo tape included early versions of " Lime House ", " Doe " and " Only in 3's ".