The phrase "achieved only now" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been accomplished or realized at the present moment or very recently.
Example: "The breakthrough in the research was achieved only now, after years of hard work and dedication."
Alternatives: "just now accomplished" or "finally realized at this moment".
In the article "The Quest for a Smart Pill,", published 10 years ago in Scientific American, moral philosopher Leon R. Kass is cited: "In those areas of human life in which excellence has until now been achieved only by discipline and effort, the attainment of those achievements by means of drugs, genetic engineering, or implanted devices looks to be cheating or cheap".
In pursuing the best result as they see it, they have achieved only the third-best and now the problem might be the embarrassing one of getting back to second-best.
Until now scientists have achieved only limited results in cloning animals, though the procedure is common in plant breeding.
It feels like a real articulation of now, a style that couldn't have been achieved only a few years ago.
But they achieved only mixed results.
Because trastuzumab alone achieves only a 15-30% response rate, it is now commonly combined with conventional chemotherapeutic drugs.
Cultural diplomacy can achieve only so much.
Unfortunately, facsimiles can achieve only so much.
Such TV systems, called "direct broadcast services," have so far not lived up to their original expectations and have sometimes been lampooned as "dubious broadcast services". A DBS service offered by Communications Satellite Corp. folded in 1985, and Murdoch's Sky Television venture in Europe has only now achieved a modest success after sustaining huge losses in start up.
It was like a life lived backward, somehow, even if she was only now achieving her longtime ambition: "I wanted to be in law enforcement".
