The phrase "alone a question" is not correct in standard written English.
It is unclear and does not convey a clear meaning in context.
Example: "This is alone a question of ethics."
Alternatives: "merely a question" or "just a question".
The announcement prompted one analyst during a conference call to ask if the once-dominant company was still viable as a stand-alone, a question dismissed by Mike S. Zafirovski, the president and chief executive.
Richard Adler alone was a question mark".
The fact that it is possible to accurately identify the stimuli based on several different single regions alone raises a question of whether multiple brain regions redundantly encode the same information about the object, or whether each part of the brain encodes somewhat different information, reflecting its specialization.
So what are we doing here alone?" A good question.
He explained the disadvantage caused by the inequality of the ground, and said that this could be remedy by speed alone: it was a question of surprise, not of battle.
My thoughts on Sarah Palin run like this: In the days that followed hard upon Sarah Palin being unleashed, unexpectedly, into our lives, the big story was how the press was in mad pursuit of the Alaska Governor, desperate to get within fifteen feet of the vice-presidential candidate, let alone ask her a question or two.
When the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, called for an investigation to determine whether a US soldier who massacred nine Afghan children and seven other civilians had acted alone, he was voicing a question on the lips of most Afghans.
Cab guy then went back to asking if I was alone and added in a question about whether or not I was single.
While Radoslav's opinion is shared by more than a few of his generation, maintaining (let alone restoring) Buzludzha is a question of money.
That was barely enough time to ask a question, let alone hear it answered.
