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The phrase "apply only partially" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where something is applicable to a limited extent or not fully relevant.
Example: "The new policy will apply only partially to remote workers, as some provisions are specific to in-office employees."
Alternatives: "apply in part" or "partially applicable".
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A special focus is laid upon a scheme in which the control input is applied only partially over a limited length in the streamwise direction, but not on the entire wall surface.
As the transmission from a BS is received by the MS and the RS, dedicated multiantenna techniques (beamforming and other space division multiple access (SDMA) algorithms) can be applied only partially, because one stream is only optimized forone destination.
Most of the schemes for the main problem are partially numerical and therefore apply only to the lunar motion.
However, a study evaluating the quality of MI by means of observation, showed that practice nurses applied MI only partially [ 30], indicating that HCPs may overestimate their skills in optimally applying MI.
Here, the participants demonstrated a preference for the cases where Pat was applied (even only partially).
Standard methods of technological forecasting and technology assessment cannot be applied, or only partially.
In past occurrences, it happens that the drivers, being already at a high speed, squeezed the brake pedal down all too progressively and not fully, and "fried" the brakes by applying them only partially or letting go of them.
This curfew, and another that applied only to youths, was lifted earlier this year, partially due to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who stated that "curfews … wreak havoc with one of our most fundamental constitutional rights – the right to freedom of movement".
The rhetoric of a new type of politics seems to now only partially apply.
This hypothesis may only partially apply to the present case, as performing arts may not involve representations in the same sense as plastic arts.
These four conditions only partially apply.
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