Only recently has it become possible to determine the identities and relative abundances of organisms in natural populations, typically using PCR-based strategies that target 16S small subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid ( 16S rRNA ) genes.

Only John, on his return to England in 1389, was able to persuade the Lords Appellant and King Richard to compromise, ushering in a period of relative stability.

Only when the ' solo exposition ' is under way does the solo instrument assert itself and participate in the move to ( classically ) the dominant or relative major.

Only a few thousand 2CVs were sold in North America when they were new ; as in England their pricing was excessive relative to competitors.

Only considering the front size, the of a real flat plate would be less than 1 ; except that there will be suction on the back side: a negative pressure ( relative to ambient ).

* Only relative addressing is used.

Only the Labour Party has more mayors, and relative to party size, the Centre Party has more mayors than any other.

Only a loan from a relative, Stephen V. Harkness, allowed him to keep creditors at bay and stay out of total ruin.

Only a very small number of languages, of which the best known is Yoruba, have pronoun retention as their sole grammatical type of relative clause.

Only one year after Maurice's death, Isabella remarried to Geoffery de Rancon, relative of a much older Geoffrey de Rancon.

Only the Russian Federation's Navy has used a relative handful of liquid-metal cooled reactors in production vessels, specifically the Alfa class submarine, which used lead-bismuth eutectic as a reactor moderator and coolant, but the vast majority of Russian nuclear-powered boats and ships use light water reactors exclusively.

Only then did the General Land Office issue a patent relative to the particular land in question and sent the same on to the President for his siganture.

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 handful of 512 megabit games were released for the Nintendo 64 system.

As of 2010 US Military spending is about 43 % of the world total .. Only a handful of countries spent a larger portion of GDP on military in 2010 and of these only Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates spent more than US $ 10 billion.

Only a handful of residents survive the blast.

Only a handful of Chiefs had signed treaties of cession, and in some of those cases it is doubtful whether they had understood the terms.

Only a handful of earldoms had existed under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic in nature.

Only a handful, including Khalil, barely manage to flee the battle field.

Only a handful of interstellar probes, such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons, are currently on trajectories that leave our Solar System.

Only a handful of those were published during his lifetime.

Only a handful of native princes had their claim to the overlordship of Wales recognised by the English Crown.

Only a handful of vocabulary differs between the two locations.

Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty ( usually as a result of some crime being committed ( or threatened ) against a member of their family ).

Only a small amount of property was not destroyed, including a handful of seeds, two sows, one pig and a pair of chickens.

Only a handful of marches are written otherwise, usually in 4 / 4, but still using the same tempo ( see below ).

Only a handful of veteran Lanterns remained in the ranks.

Only a handful of proprietors have owned the home, and the Holladay family was its steward for over 100 years.

Only a handful of Oregon County men joined the Union Army.

Only a handful of earldoms had existed under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic in nature.

Only a handful of businesses operate within the City of Asbury, however, this number has grown in recent years, along with an expanding population.

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

Only a handful of parcels remain outside the borders of the township's three villages.

Only a handful of the streets were paved, and most homes were used as summer homes.

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

Only a handful are considered suitable to tell to uninitiated visitors.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

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

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

Only the Asteraceae have composite flower heads ; the other families do not, but share other characteristics such as storage of inulin that define the eleven families as more closely related to each other than to other plant families or orders such as the Rosids.

Only a small minority will recover without therapy, such as those suffering a mini-stroke.

Only about 60 % of patients will fit in a classification scheme such as fluent / nonfluent / pure aphasias.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

Only a very small percentage or a tiny fraction of people can ever make a name for themselves as celebrities in the entertainment spheres such as ( including music, film, television, radio, theater, modelling, literature etc.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

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 some diseases such as influenza are contagious and commonly believed to be infectious.

Only one who has faith comes to know such a state of mind.

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

Only very rarely was a prince without a mother of descent from such families allowed to ascend the throne.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums ( such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin ' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ' n ' Easy ).

Only small nonpolar molecules, such as oxygen can diffuse easily across the membrane.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

Only one application for a licence to run such a service was received by the Communications Commission.

Only Jainas have been absolutely unwilling to allow such ideas to penetrate their community, despite the fact that there must have been tremendous amount of social pressure on them to do so.

Only elephants and higher primates, such as humans, live in comparably complex social structures.

Only chiral molecules ( i. e., those that have no internal planes of symmetry ) can give rise to such a phase.