As always in the World Cup, there can only be one winner and only time will tell whether this time round it's the octopus or the parakeet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

For a time he was one of only three doctors,and the only surgeon, at a huge hospital in Kinshasa.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

She says the government has provided books for her school only one time during the past few years.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

For example,she wore men's pants as clothing at a time when women wore only skirts or dresses.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Hospice care helps people whose doctors confirm that they have only a limited time to live.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Now,she has another starring role, only this time it is not on the big screen.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

She admitted that she got married the first time only to escape from being forced to live in a group home for children without parents.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Winds,water and time had reduced Poplar Island to only a few pieces of land.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

But by the time the army reached the capital, only three hundred men remained.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Today only about one hundred fifty people live in them all the time.

VOA: special.2010.07.05