Only one of the flight scored a direct hit and the rest blew up jungle.

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 one worth a shit, and that's Brandon.

`` Only one lumber dealer in ten is equipped to handle unit loads ; ;

Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.

Only in one instance have we moved purposively and effectively to dislodge existing Communist power: in Guatemala.

Only one objected, but Palfrey soon convinced him that he ought to go with the others.

Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.

Only then did he decide he didn't want one.

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 one house on the street had no lawn before it.

Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences, where one man's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

Only one year of deficit was recorded, but the price paid was retrenchments and lean public spending.

Only recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.

Only one made it, Alfred's ships intercepted the other two.

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.

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

Only one adjacent country is connected to Burkina Faso via rail, Côte d ' Ivoire, a country in which the same one-metre gauge is employed.

Only one steel company, Richard Thomas and Baldwins, remained in public ownership throughout.

Only the addition of significant new forces on one side or the other seemed likely to tip the scale.

Only one incorporated town is chartered in Pennsylvania.

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 native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

Only two people in the state of Illinois knew that I was entering Hanover State Hospital under an assumed name, or why.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

Only 11 senators were on the floor and there was no record vote.

Only at this moment -- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty's bed -- she found herself examining how others might regard her.

Only, this old man's connivance was even less to her taste than Selma Cotter's open censure.

Only Cromwell, the giant boatswain, was mild-mannered and respectful.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

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 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 later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Only then was it sent out to the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), the intelligence chiefs in the relevant ministries, and later on to high-level commanders in the field.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.