Only to the south of El Alamein the steep slopes of the Qattara Depression ruled out the possibility of armour moving around the southern flank of his defences and limited the width of the front he had to defend.

" Only the wooden palisades may save you ", answered the oracle, probably aware that there was sentiment for sailing to the safety of southern Italy and reestablishing Athens there.

Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets, and squares with remains of walls standing as high as eight metres, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera.

Only the southern Crimean coast of Ukraine has a humid subtropical climate.

Only a dozen or so, now called Jerry's J-Boy Restaurants, are still open in Kentucky and southern Indiana.

Only near the southern end of this natural coral barricade do two open passages permit safe ship navigation from one side of the Indian Ocean to the other through the territorial waters of Maldives.

Only weeks before the election, on 14 July 2009, André Kagwa Rwisereka, the vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party was found dead, with his head severed almost entirely, in Butare, southern Rwanda.

Only Aranese, a southern Gascon variety, is spoken in Spain.

Only 4 % of St. Vincent's alumni are from River Forest due to its location on North Avenue, since it is the only choice of Catholic schools for the southern portion of River Forest's neighbor, Elmwood Park.

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 Route 533 has a stop sign at the circle, while Route 524 and the southern part of Route 206 have traffic signals some distance from the circle.

Only two of the village's streets run uphill from Route 353: Rumsey Street ( the easternmost tip of Waite Hollow Road ) on the village's southern boundary and West Street at the peak of the hill.

Only 13 targets on the list are facilities associated with chemical and biological weapons or ballistic missiles, and three are southern Republican Guard bases that might be involved in a repeat invasion of Kuwait.

Only one-third of the world's Armenian population lives in Armenia, and their pre-World War I population area was six times larger than that of present-day Armenia, including the eastern regions of Turkey, northern part of Iran, southern part of Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan regions of Azerbaijan.

Only two species of amphibians have been positively identified in the southern Snake Range and adjacent portions of Snake and Spring valleys are the spadefoot toad ( Scaphiopus hammondi ) and the leopard frog ( Rana pipiens ).

Only now was Matthias able to turn against the Ottomans, who were again threatening the southern provinces.

Paramārtha also taught widely on the principles of Consciousness Only, and developed a large following in southern China.

Only at the southern margins, along McKenzie, is there any commercial activity and a few apartment blocks.

Only certain parts of southern Chile, coastal British Columbia and the Adriatic Sea coast have as much rain at low elevations outside the tropics.

Only two wings survive from this residential representative town residence-western and the short southern.

Only in a reign of Catherine the Great in 1768 troops of general Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben were sent to join forces of King Heraclius II of Georgia who hoped to reconquer the Ottoman-held southern Georgian lands in conjunction with Russia.

Only the southern right whale dolphin is of comparable size and lives as far south.

Only the southern part of the border, close to Viborg, was actually considered important and clearly defined in the treaty.

Only one portion of the ridge is named, a southern section underlying Harding Township known as Lees Hill.

Only south of its southern tip is Irrititu Island, with an area of.

Only about half of it still exists.

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 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.

Only about a half a mile ( 800 m ) of its length is in Pennsylvania ; the Milford-Montague Toll Bridge carries it over the Delaware River into New Jersey, where it is the remainder of the route.