The phrase "alone operating" is a grammatically correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used when describing something or someone that is functioning or working independently without any assistance or support from others. Example: "The new machine in the factory is designed for alone operating, making it easier for workers to complete tasks on their own without the need for a team."
Still, for generations, singers of "Winterreise" have held audiences spellbound with song alone, operating in the usual concert format.
We currently have 39 working groups based at St Paul's alone, operating across topic areas as diverse as direct democracy, outreach and sanitation.
Very rarely were so many guerrillas in the same place at the same time, let alone operating within such a well-organized and hierarchical command structure.
But when US law enforcement agencies regularly cite some 926 organised hate groups at work at any given time – with 13 alone operating in the state of Maryland, where Von Bronn lived – all with self-reinforcing hyperlinks to each others' ideas and activities – it may be time to rethink the reassuring notion that someone acted alone.
There have, of course, always been opera stars who could act as well as they could sing — Maria Callas is perhaps the paradigm — but for many years great performers could get by on their voices alone, operating in the style known as "park and bark".
You know, because no other browser, let alone operating system, can work in the Internet.
Both the CIA and the Pentagon maintain separate drone operations; the Pentagon alone operates 61 continuous combat air patrols over foreign soil with drones, a number that will grow to 65 in the coming months.
Canada alone operates four satellites and has just received approval for three more that will be launched toward 2015.
Some, like All Souls', cannot afford a full-time minister, let alone operate a soup kitchen or clothes pantry.
But Germany and France have also said they will make changes in the way the euro zone alone operates, if that is the only way to defend the common currency.
EWoman (www.ewoman.co.jp/) is jumping into a stampede, and whether it or any other Web site will dominate the women's market, let alone operate profitably, is an open question.
