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Discover LudwigThe phrase "I only finally" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward or unclear.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize that something has occurred after a long wait or effort, but it is better to rephrase for clarity. Example: "I only finally understood the concept after several explanations."
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It started on a Monday and I only finally went into hospital on the Thursday evening.
One of them kept pushing me to create a dedicated Instagram since he thinks other people will enjoy it as well, but I only finally got around to it after my Japan trip -- about 8 months after I started taking these pictures.
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When I ask Clare Balding about her year, she starts flicking through her diary and muttering words like "golf" and "racing" and "the Winter Olympics" and only finally says: "Oh yes and AA Gill, I suppose".
But the deal was only finally sealed earlier this week.
Sony records only finally agreed to let her go last week.
It was only finally settled on her own authority.
Mohamed was only finally released over three later when Nasheed resigned on 7 February.
I started going out again in 2009 [a year after the end of the sectarian war]." Displaced from his home district, he only finally returned three weeks ago.
Yet at his core he believes that evil is only finally challenged, if not vanquished, by love.
Construction on Eastbourne pier was opened in 1870 but was only finally completed in 1872, six years after it began.
The word metrosexual will probably only finally fall out of use when masculinity and heterosexuality are no longer considered synonyms.
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