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Only a proportion of purebred heifers are needed to provide replacement cows, so often some of the cows in dairy herds are put to a beef bull to produce crossbred calves suitable for rearing as beef.
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Only in a small proportion of patients has underlying narrowing of the cerebral sinuses or veins been demonstrated.
Only a very small proportion of British television from the black and white era survives at all ; perhaps 5 % from the 1953 – 58 period and 8 – 10 % from the 1960s.
Only 2 % of the names recorded in the province were of Thracian or Dacian origin ( while in Noricum, the proportion of names of indigeneus origin was 24 %), although characteristic Dacian names ( Bitus, Butus, Decebalus, Diurpanæus, Sassa ) were recorded in other provinces of the Roman empire.
Only a minority ( 13 %) were sympathetic to him, a result which he objected to, owing to the small proportion of party members who had been consulted.
Only the distribution of the colors ( in point of proportion and position ) changed to a certain extent, being made equal after the abortive Romanian revolution of 1848 when, under the spur of the French revolutionary spirit, many states in Europe adopted as their national flag the tricolour, or dimensionally standardized three-color banner.
Only half of the 469 languages surveyed in had a velar nasal phoneme ; as a further curiosity, a large proportion of them limit its occurrence to the syllable coda.
Only a tiny proportion of these companies have so far grown into multinationals: ARM, Autonomy Corporation and AVEVA are the most obvious examples, and more recently CSR has seen rapid growth due to the uptake of Bluetooth.
Only a small proportion of the residential land is multiple dwelling housing such as units or townhouses, though recent planning approvals indicate that this proportion is likely to grow.
Fuel is heavily taxed and therefore relatively costly in most first-world markets outside North America ; fuel is about two and a half times the price in the UK than the U. S. Fuel costs are also a much higher proportion of income, due to generally higher wages and lower living costs in the U. S. Only during occasional fuel price spikes such as those of 1973, 1979 – 81, and 2008-9 have North American drivers been motivated to seek levels of fuel economy considered ordinary outside North America.
Only a proportion of squadron manpower is deployed at any one time, with the remainder taking leave, courses or training.
Only a small proportion of the provincial population remains in outports along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Only 4 % of physicians in the United States are African American, and Hispanics represent just 5 %, even though these percentages are much less than their groups ' proportion of the United States population.
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Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.
Only when the newest Mr. America or Mr. Universe discovers them and puts them into practice are we reacquainted with them and once again see how effective they really are.
Only the vain and incurably sentimental among us will lose sleep simply because foreign peoples are not as impressed by our strength as they ought to be.
Only a dozen or so schools send as many as six students, and there are seldom more than fifteen men in any single delegation.
Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.
Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right.
Only high frequency sounds like mating calls are heard in this way but low frequency noises can be detected through another mechanism.
Only a limited number of actinium compounds are known including AcF < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcCl < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcBr < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcOF, AcOCl, AcOBr, Ac < sub > 2 </ sub > S < sub > 3 </ sub >, Ac < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub > and AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >.
11 ( 2008 ) Only Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri's Shirak Airport are in use for commercial aviation.
Only the product is required to calculate planetary positions for an ephemeris, which explains why ephemerides are calculated in astronomical units and not in SI units.
Only 28 of the 49 parties to the agreements have the right to participate in decision-making at these meetings, though the other 21 are still allowed to attend.
Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.
Only the Jarawa and Sentinelese still maintain a steadfast independence and refuse most attempts at contact ; their numbers are uncertain but estimated to be in the low hundreds.
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 pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.
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