Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.

Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope.

Only 53 teams in the modern era have posted sub -. 500 records in April and survived to make the postseason.

Only three teams ( Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich ) have won each of the three main competitions ( European Cup / UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup and UEFA Cup / Europa League ), a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners ' Cup.

Only four teams have appeared in more Super Bowls than the Redskins: the Pittsburgh Steelers ( 8 ), Dallas Cowboys ( 8 ), New England Patriots ( 7 ), and Denver Broncos ( 6 ).

Only five teams have more Super Bowl wins than the Redskins: the Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), Dallas Cowboys ( 5 ), San Francisco 49ers ( 5 ), Green Bay Packers ( 4 ), and New York Giants ( 4 ).

Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales.

Only five investigation teams are still supported, though data is collected for two additional instruments.

Only three of those teams are without artificial ice.

Only ten of the 32 entrants, and four of the 16 qualified teams ( Brazil, Argentina, United States and Egypt, the first African team to qualify for a World Cup finals tournament ), were from outside Europe.

Only two teams, Memphis and Philadelphia, returned with the same ownership from the prior season.

Only four teams have won more than one championship: Springfield in 1996 and 1998, Johnstown in 1995 ( as the Steal ) and in 2000 ( as the Johnnies ), Richmond ( now Traverse City ) in 2001 and 2002, and Windy City in 2007 and 2008.

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

Only FIFA affiliated teams were allowed to take part, with the public draw for the tournament taking place on 18 June 1911.

Only three club teams competed.

Only three men's teams competed — two from Canada and one from the United States of America.

Only American contestants participated ; three teams of 7 players each entered.

Only two teams competed, so only one match was played.

Only the three teams ( six cars ) with Bridgestone tires started the 2005 United States Grand Prix, and the event was considered a farce.

Only four automatic qualification places were available for the 1999 tournament ; the other three went to the top three teams from the previous World Cup in 1995 ; champions ( South Africa ), runners-up ( New Zealand ), and third-place play-off winners ( France ).

Only Selwood, George Lyle and Warren Miller were reclaimed by their former NHL teams.

Only 25 of the players on a Major League Baseball team's 40-man major league reserve list may be active for the major league club, except from September 1 to the end of the regular season when teams are allowed to expand their game-day rosters to 40 players.

Since the implementation of the playoff system, Only three teams have won both the regular season and playoffs in the same year ; Leicester in 2000 – 01 ( the first year of the playoffs ) and again in 2008 – 09 and 2009 – 10, Sale Sharks in 2005 – 06 & the Harlequins ( in their first ever premiership final ) 2011-12.

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, unfortunately, he could not remove from his voice a nagging insinuation of the direct command.

Only a plea from the house manager, John Collins, finally broke up the party.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

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

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 five leases that he signed survive, and all date from 1051 to 1053.

Only 9 % of managers ( of the oil company ) were from Khuzestan.

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 two songs are in circulation from these recordings: " Steal Away " and " Operator ".

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

Only a very small number of Mark 1 stock was fitted with the B4 bogie from new, it being used on the Mark 1 only to replace worn BR1 bogies.

Only the Dunkirk evacuation saved the entire Expeditionary Force from capture.

Only he and Churchill remained in the war cabinet from the formation of the Government of National Unity to the 1945 election.

Only Eurylochus, suspecting treachery from the outset, escaped to warn Odysseus and the others who had stayed behind at the ships.

Only after independence from Colombia in 1903 did some begin to regard Panama as a North or Central American entity.

Only a storm, which separated the combatants, saved the Roman forces from complete annihilation.

Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships from November 5 – 9.

Only a walk kept Young from his second perfect game.

Only one character from the first episode remains, Ken Barlow ( William Roache ).

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 one person was injured aside from the bombers, but the Consulate was closed for more than a month.

Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official ; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently.