Only about 2 % of the continent is not covered by ice.

Only about 100 kg is found per year, which makes it valuable and expensive.

Only fragments of any of the plays have survived-about 340 in all, totaling about 1, 000 lines.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

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

Only pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.

Only about 150 people speak Aleut.

Only about 2, 000 rounds were produced to this standard.

Only about 60 % are in protected areas, suggesting that actual numbers of the lowland subspecies may only be in the low tens of thousands.

Only about 4 % of the total mass of the universe is made of atoms or ions, and thus represented by chemical elements.

Only about half of it still exists.

Only a small proportion of the population ( about 5 %) is surveyed in writing or by telephone.

David had his own pupils, about 40 to 50, and was commissioned by the government to paint " Horace defended by his Father ", but he soon decided, " Only in Rome can I paint Romans.

After the 11 September 2001 attacks " Only Time " was used as a soundtrack in many radio and television reports about the attacks.

Only about one quarter of the length is shown.

Only a few bishops appear to have had doubts about the dogma itself.

Only about 1 % of all distance travelled was by plane in 2002.

Only about seventy people remained in the town, most of them religious, people without family or belonging to the Genoese trader colony ( see list in ).

* Only Mark counts the possessed swine ; there are about two thousand ().

Only in John does Jesus talk at length about himself and his divine role, often shared with the disciples only.

Only about 5 % of the galaxies surveyed have been found to be truly isolated ; however, these isolated formations may have interacted and even merged with other galaxies in the past, and may still be orbited by smaller, satellite galaxies.

Only below its Joule-Thomson inversion temperature ( of about 32 to 50 K at 1 atmosphere ) does it cool upon free expansion.

Only 25, 000 people per year, of which about 21 percent are industrial workers, graduate yearly from the National Institute of Professional Training ( Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional-- INFOP ) established in 1972.

Only about 14 percent of cultivated land was irrigated in 1987.

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 two people are known to have read two independent editions: the author C. S. Forester and Amos Urban Shirk, an American businessman, who read the 11th and 14th editions, devoting roughly three hours per night for four and a half years to read the 11th.

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.

Only about half of this income is specific to the role of prime minister, the remainder being the normal salary of a Member of Parliament.

Only a lower limit on its half life of over 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > years has been set.

Only half of the Division arrived with the First Lift and only half of these ( 1st Parachute Brigade ) could advance on the bridge.

Only 12 out of 137 gliders in Operation Ladbroke landed on target, with more than half landing in the sea.

Only the second half of the film survives, and the final scene is incomplete as a result of print damage.

Only the left half of the suspension cone is shown.

Only in the second half of the 20th century has the city started to reclaim some of its past glory.

Only the combined magnetic field generated where the X and Y lines cross ( a logical AND function ) is sufficient to change the state ; other cores will see only half the needed field (" half-selected "), or none at all.

Only half of them listen.

Only from the second half of the 19th century onward did Gouda start to profit from an improved economic condition.

Only about 5 % of cases will have an incubation period of less than 20 hours, and, on the other end, it is expected that 5 % of cases would have an incubation period of greater than four and a half days.

Only half the patients presenting with the symptoms held by mononucleosis and a positive heterophile antibody test ( monospot test ) meet the entire criteria.

Only patches of farmland in Argentina, southern Ukraine and along the Yellow River in China match the fertile ground that covers much of the northern half of Illinois, particularly a high-yielding band through the state's midsection.

Only the second half of " Majestic " is present on Captured.

BBC News estimates that " Only around 30 women wear this kind of veil in Belgium, out of a Muslim population of around half a million.

# Only five riders from each team can play in a half.

Only about half the text of the play is used.

Only in 1931, more than half a century after the work's composition, was Pictures at an Exhibition published in a scholarly edition in agreement with the composer's manuscript.

Only about half of the total area is considered productive.

This saw the beginning of a productive two years for the band and they recorded three albums: The Tourists, Reality Effect, and Luminous Basement, as well as half a dozen singles, including " Blind Among the Flower " ( 1979 ), " The Loneliest Man in the World " ( 1979 ), " Don't Say I Told You So " ( 1980 ), and two major hits, the Dusty Springfield cover " I Only Want to Be with You " ( 1979 ) and " So Good to Be Back Home Again " ( 1980 ), both of which reached the top 10 in the UK.