The phrase "already only one" is not standard and may be confusing in written English.
It could be used in a context where you want to emphasize that something has reached a singular state or condition, but clarity is essential.
Example: "After all the changes, it seems we are already only one step away from completion."
Alternatives: "just one now" or "merely one left".
Already only one course 120,000 students.
"We did this immediately, starting already only one month after the tragic events and we have since supported 280 victims and family members, to ensure that they had the means, including financial, to rebuild a sustainable future.
He is already only one goal short of the total that won him the golden boot in South Africa, and he could become the first player to retain it.
"I consider getting promotion a huge success but for us to do it this year would be very very tough". With Hearts running away with the league, Houston reckons there is already only one route remaining to the top flight, via the play-offs.
And the Olympics, in which Japanese athletes are already only one gold medal short of their record at the 1960 Tokyo games, have given a boost to sales of sportswear and home electronics.
The team is one of five to have used 40 players this season — they used 45 all of last season — and they have sent a player to the disabled list 16 times already, only one fewer than in all of 2012.
The odds for hatchlings are already slim – only one in 1,000 make it to adulthood.
So again, our carbon is going to be 2 s p 3. And what will our hydrogen be? 1 s -- we don't have to hybridize it, it already has only one unpaired electron in a 1 s orbital.
Here we report a memory effect in LiFePO4 one of the materials used for the positive electrode in Li-ion batteries that appears already after only one cycle of partial charge and discharge.
So instead, as I matured into an insular, lanky, nerdy poster-boy for being an only child (now is probably a good time to acknowledge that I do have a sister - hi, Lucy - but she didn't come along until I was almost 10: the damage was already done), only one non-monster hero abided – Dan Aykroyd.
West already performed "Only One" in concert last weekend.
