At the time, scientists believed that a person at the top of the mountain would only have enough oxygen to sleep.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

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

VOA: special.2009.09.09

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

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The underemployed are people no longer searching for work or only able to find part time jobs.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

They urged her to become a music teacher, because they said that was the only good job for a black woman at that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

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

VOA: special.2009.02.10

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

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

VOA: special.2009.10.06

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

But President Obama remembered him as "not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

on the contrary." The new government believes territorial concessions only led to terrorism and wars and that it is time for a new approach.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

(Speaking) "Almost all the time, we have only bread and herbs to eat,and tea.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

At this point in time, they are only allowed to use the money for IMF purposes, to pay IMF staff or replenish accounts for use,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20