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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a spread of only" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying a limited range or selection of items, often in contexts like food, data, or options.
Example: "The buffet featured a spread of only vegetarian dishes, catering to the dietary preferences of the guests."
Alternatives: "a selection of just" or "a range of merely".
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That's up from a spread of only 70 basis points in early October.
So instead of earning 6.5 percentage points more than ten-year Treasury bonds the average yield of junk investors are earning a spread of only 3.5 points.
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A spread of forest, only surviving because William the Conqueror said it should, a place bisected by the M27 and notorious for traffic snarl-ups in tiny towns where Ferrari and Maserati dealerships slug it out on the high streets, is the world's finest and greenest.
Urge fired a spread of three torpedoes, but only one hit on her port side.
For the most heavily traded stocks—such as Apple or Google it definitely is not true, since they tend to have a bid-ask spread of only one "tick": the smallest unit of currency permitted on the exchange.
Furthermore, the recent and global spread of only a few R. communis cultivars without any apparent geographical basis suggests that this species does not follow typical genetic patterns in plant distributions.
Over the last several weeks, the Pollster.com average of polls testing the generic choice of Republican versus Democrat for Congress has begun to close from a spread of almost 5% down to only 2.3% advantage to Republicans.
We note that if copying were strongly biased so that individuals adopt effective treatments preferentially over ineffective ones, both acquisition and loss processes would favour effective remedies, leading to the spread of only efficacious treatments.
Some sinks have spreads of only four inches across.
Nevertheless, the distribution of needles and syringes has become an accepted worldwide strategy to prevent the spread of not only HIV but also other bloodborne infectious diseases such as HCV among people who inject drugs.
The cancer spreads parasitically one of only a handful of malignancies known to do so jumping from devil to devil when the animals bite one another, touch faces, or mate with one another.
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