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Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.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 church and women's home de Heilige Geest ( the Holy Spirit ) survived the pillage and fire.

Only a woman of her prestige could have performed the necessary critique and debunking of the first instant-canon feminist screeds, such as those of Kate Millett or Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose middlebrow mediocrity crippled women's studies from the start.

Only since 1996 are the men's and women's World All-Round Championships held at the same time and venue.

Only one indoor women's league has ever taken the field: the Lingerie Football League, known for its scantily-clad players and its signature event, the Lingerie Bowl, plays by a variant of indoor rules, and eight of its ten franchises play in indoor arenas ( the other two, the Dallas Desire and Denver Dream, play outdoors, but use the same indoor football rules ; they are the only two teams known to have ever played the indoor game outdoors ).

Only after the city's western defences were extended again in 1344 – 46 up to the now-destroyed Christoffelturm, the Zytglogge was converted to a women's prison, notably housing Pfaffendirnen – " priests ' whores ", women convicted of sexual relations with clerics.

Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Only one point separated the scores of the two athletes, though the 2352 points that Leane Suniar received placed her far higher in the women's ranking than the 2353 points that counterpart Donald Pandiangan received placed him.

Only in 1966, at the age of sixty, did Gaster secure a permanent full-time academic post, as professor of religion at Barnard College, the women's undergraduate division of Columbia University.

Only the 1991 and 1995 editions have been used as European qualifiers for a World Cup ; starting in 1999, the group system used in men's qualifiers was also used for women's national teams.

Only through a fundraising drive among the members and other organisations within the Labor Movement, including the social democratic women's association, the party and trade unions etc.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.

Only six new games were released after the debut of the second system before its death, several of which were developed at Fairchild before they sold it off.

Only forty years after Michinaga's death, his Fujiwara heirs were not able to prevent the ascension of Emperor Go-Sanjō ( reigned 1068 – 1073 ), the first emperor since Emperor Uda whose mother was not a Fujiwara.

Only twenty-seven years old at his death, Moseley could in many scientists ' opinions have contributed a lot to the knowledge of atomic structure had he survived.

Only a few weeks before his death, the government of France awarded him its highest honor, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d ' Honneur.

Only the day, 8 July, is known thanks to the Regesta Historia Brandenburgensis, which records the death in " VIII Id Jul " of " Juditha marchionissa gemma Polonorum ".

Only when an incumbent president is absolutely absent ( either through resignation, impeachment or death ), the Congress of the Union constitutes itself acts as an electoral college to elect an interim president by absolute majority.

Only after Wegener's death did evidence lead to a gradual change of opinion and ultimate acceptance of his ideas.

Only later, after Picasso ’ s death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.

Only the humanity of Jesus Christ experienced death.

Only days later, on 28 April 1192, Conrad was stabbed to death by Hashshashin ( Assassins ) before he could be crowned.

Only shortly before his death was Rilke's illness diagnosed as leukemia.

Only 12 days later Achilles slew him, after the death of Patroclus.

Only Wolsey's sudden death at Leicesteron his journey to the Tower of London saved him from the public humiliation and inevitable execution he would have suffered upon his arrival at the Tower.

Only four years after Qin Shi Huang's death, revolts and territorial uprisings overthrew the Qin Dynasty.

Only at Bayreuth could his last work be presented in the way envisaged by him-a tradition maintained by his wife, Cosima, long after his death.

" Leone abandoned this project in favor of A Place Only Mary Knows, though Donati wrote a treatment and the project remained in gestation for years after Leone's death.

Only in 1831 their correspondence resumed ; it continued in sporadic fashion until Johanna's death in 1838.

Only on September 30 was Lin's death confirmed in Beijing, which led to the cancellation of the National Day celebration events the following day.

Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: " Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life.

Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false.

Only one man fell to his death, at night and under mysterious circumstances, at the anchoring place for his wire.

Only one year before Pavlov ’ s own death.

Only five years later, Canada had three successive kings in the space of one year, with the death of George V, the accession and abdication of Edward VIII, and his replacement by George VI.