Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil, and transformed by this translation, did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat, interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to, if not the illusion of, unmistakable three-dimensional identities.

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 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 that curious, animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.

Only Bucky Harris, the `` boy-manager '' of Washington in 1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat.

Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

Only 8% of the worries had behind them real causes which demanded attention.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

Only one house on the street had no lawn before it.

Only the dive itself had any meaning.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.

Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations.

Only 4, 000 inhabitants remained in the city ; the rest had followed evacuation orders.

Only the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosians, the Fratres S. Ambrosii ad Nemus, had anything more than a very local significance.

Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens.

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 ".

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

Only a few individuals in the Soviet Union dared to defend ' traitors ' like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, and those who had dared were inevitably punished.

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 five deaths occurred while he held the post, compared to sixty in his predecessor's time, a result which is generally ascribed to the attention he paid to their wounds.

Only dominant males are generally able to mate.

Only after 1800 did the supply increase sufficiently so that, on the insistence of Admiral Lord St Vincent, it began to be issued generally.

Only a single calf is born at a time and aside from mothers with their young or males following a receptive female, manatees are generally solitary creatures.

Only fragments remain of the literary works of the radical Taborite faction-these were generally Latin apologia defending the Taborite doctrine ( Mikuláš Biskupec z Pelhřimova, Petr Chelčický ).

Only about ten to twenty percent of the organism ’ s energy is generally passed to the next organism.

Only in churches which have no ordained person except one priest, and in which high Mass is thus impossible, is it allowed to celebrate the Mass ( on Sundays and feasts ) with most of the adornment borrowed from high Mass, with singing and ( generally ) with incense.

Only the Blue Tit is typically polygynous: all other species are generally monogamous.

Only the very wealthy could afford the first automobiles, and they generally employed a chauffeur rather than driving themselves.

Only a small minority of them, generally the largest, were detached, but even aristocrats whose country houses had grounds of hundreds or thousands of acres, often lived in terraced houses in town.

The term " Rockefeller Republican " is now somewhat archaic ( Nelson Rockefeller having died in 1979 ), and Republicans with these views are now generally referred to as simply " moderate Republicans " or Republican In Name Only.

Only a small portion of Internet service providers actually use any of the domains served by alternate root operators, generally supporting only ICANN-sanctioned root servers.

* In The Simpsons episode " You Only Move Twice ", which generally spoofs Bond villain clichés, supervillain / great boss Hank Scorpio has " Mr. Bont " strapped to a table with a laser à la Goldfinger.

Only after passing these successive experiences does the mystic reach his goal: the vision of a human form, which is closely linked to his own physical appearance and generally experienced as standing in front of the mystic.

Only a few genuine fragments of Sotades have been preserved ; those in Stobaeus are generally considered spurious.

Only the year before, the Government had been indicating that no legislative changes in this area were planned, so this is a turnaround whose timing is generally felt to be the result of the efforts of fathers ' rights activists.

Shortly following Universal Migrator came Ayreonauts Only, an album generally meant to be only for diehard fans of Ayreon.

Only the second film ( Universal Soldier being the other ) Emmerich has directed in which he did not contribute to the screenplay, the film received generally favorable critical and commercial response, and is Emmerich's best-reviewed film to date.

In Austria, PO Boxes come in 1 size, and 4 different versions ( 1 .: Only Post addressed to the PO Box will be delivered to it, 2 .: All mail addressed to the address of the customer and the PO Box will be delivered to the PO Box, 3 .: Same as 1., but for businesses, 4 .: Same as 2., but for businesses ) – they are generally available at all post offices throughout the country.

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 generally accepted medical terminology and abbreviations are allowed

Only the one before the meal is generally done outside Orthodox Judaism

Only the Super NES version of the game was reviewed ; it was generally reviewed between September 1994 and January 1995 ( for the then-upcoming Christmas shopping season ).

Such an example is Poor Room-There is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End ( The Window ), the last two words actually describing the painting ( it was as such the painting is generally referred ).

Only a few painters took care with them, and they were generally moved from the center of attention to less important areas of vases.