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The phrase "about the only team" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that a particular team is one of the very few or the only one in a specific context.
Example: "In the league, they are about the only team that has consistently performed well this season."
Alternatives: "practically the only team" or "almost the only team".
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(They'd be about the only team that feels this strongly).
About the only team we could comfortably hope to beat is the USA, and they are not trying.
Little to Be Happy About The only team in worse shape than the Chargers may be the winless Saints, who face the Panthers.
Of multiple World Cup winners, save the '94 shootout, Brazil is about the only team to win convincingly while other World Cups like 1934 were clearly heavily manipulated and perhaps others as well.
Dallas is about the only team you can do this with since they have a lot of skill at those positions.
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IN his first few years with the San Francisco Giants, Barry Bonds waxed poetic about playing at home with the only team he ever really wanted to play for.
What about saying hello to Oklahoma, the only team to beat UNLV this season, if they meet in Sunday's final?
The Orioles are not the only team thinking about makeovers.
Alabama is not the only team giddy about upsets.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "People can talk about stats but we are not the only team to not be winning.
The only team he need worry about now is Middlesbrough.
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