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

" 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.

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 three survived past infancy: His sister Rousmaniere, and his brothers Wendell and Charles.

Only one duck appears on screen at a time, and the player has three shots to hit it.

Only cities and metropolises may have walls, and each city or metropolis can only have one wall, up to three walls per player.

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 a total of five letters between the couple are known to have survived, two letters from Martha to George and three from him to Martha.

Only three home runs were hit in that World Series.

Only three of his books were published during his lifetime: Mafeking Road published by Dassie, and Jacaranda in the Night and Cold Stone Jug published by APB.

( Only 18 players have been named as consensus All-Americans three times.

Only three other players have achieved this feat more than once: Sir Gary Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammad and Jacques Kallis, who have each done it twice.

Only the largest three, however, occupy more than 100 km² each.

The band's first involvement was on the 1994 demo of " Dark & Gray " on his Bootleg Series Tapes, they would make three more appearances on the tapes in Watch Me Come, Only a Dog and Box # 10.

Only one of this first series ( and very few of the following three in which he did not appear ) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or discarded as no longer usable, so there is almost no record of his work as a radio " Goon ".

Only three other popes – Pius IX, Leo XIII, and John Paul II – have reigned for longer periods since.

Only three PDP-1 computers are still known to exist, and all three are in the collection of the Computer History Museum ( CHM ).

Only three pitchers have had as many as seven such starts in a row, and one of those was Martínez himself, in April – May 1999.

Only one scenario is available on the first play-through ; after finishing it and obtaining one of three possible endings, players can explore six others.

Only three votes were needed to pass law.

Only three contemporary references have been found that indicate a potential connection between slavery and the revolution.

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 three people have ever been declared vexatious litigants in the High Court of Australia, the first in 1976.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.

Only six new games were released after the debut of the second system before its death, several of which were developed at Fairchild before they sold it off.

Only forty years after Michinaga's death, his Fujiwara heirs were not able to prevent the ascension of Emperor Go-Sanjō ( reigned 1068 – 1073 ), the first emperor since Emperor Uda whose mother was not a Fujiwara.

Only twenty-seven years old at his death, Moseley could in many scientists ' opinions have contributed a lot to the knowledge of atomic structure had he survived.

Only a few weeks before his death, the government of France awarded him its highest honor, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d ' Honneur.

Only the day, 8 July, is known thanks to the Regesta Historia Brandenburgensis, which records the death in " VIII Id Jul " of " Juditha marchionissa gemma Polonorum ".

Only when an incumbent president is absolutely absent ( either through resignation, impeachment or death ), the Congress of the Union constitutes itself acts as an electoral college to elect an interim president by absolute majority.

Only after Wegener's death did evidence lead to a gradual change of opinion and ultimate acceptance of his ideas.

Only later, after Picasso ’ s death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.

Only the humanity of Jesus Christ experienced death.

Only days later, on 28 April 1192, Conrad was stabbed to death by Hashshashin ( Assassins ) before he could be crowned.

Only shortly before his death was Rilke's illness diagnosed as leukemia.

Only 12 days later Achilles slew him, after the death of Patroclus.

Only Wolsey's sudden death at Leicesteron his journey to the Tower of London saved him from the public humiliation and inevitable execution he would have suffered upon his arrival at the Tower.

Only four years after Qin Shi Huang's death, revolts and territorial uprisings overthrew the Qin Dynasty.

Only at Bayreuth could his last work be presented in the way envisaged by him-a tradition maintained by his wife, Cosima, long after his death.

" Leone abandoned this project in favor of A Place Only Mary Knows, though Donati wrote a treatment and the project remained in gestation for years after Leone's death.

Only in 1831 their correspondence resumed ; it continued in sporadic fashion until Johanna's death in 1838.

Only on September 30 was Lin's death confirmed in Beijing, which led to the cancellation of the National Day celebration events the following day.

Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: " Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life.

Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false.

Only one man fell to his death, at night and under mysterious circumstances, at the anchoring place for his wire.

Only one year before Pavlov ’ s own death.

Only five years later, Canada had three successive kings in the space of one year, with the death of George V, the accession and abdication of Edward VIII, and his replacement by George VI.