Sentence examples for avoided only a from inspiring English sources
But that figure of 56% doesn't represent a sacrifice avoided, only a sacrifice postponed.
Even so, they had hoped to avoid only a second whitewash in their European history only to end the match without registering a score.
Blackpool defended manfully after the break as their hosts dominated possession in their bid to avoid only a second defeat in eight league games.
Yet insurers would have to pay for treating many thousands of healthy women, all to avoid only a few hundred cases of cancer.
That was "compensation" for steering the bank to the point of a bankruptcy avoided only by a $45 billion taxpayer bailout and a further guarantee of $300 billion of the bank's toxic assets.
During the latter year, the province came within hours of defaulting on a $3 million bond, which was avoided only by a loan from the federal government.
A tightening in monetary policy will be avoided only because a severe slowdown is already on the way.
This presumption has fueled the belief that future 9/11's can be avoided only by a wholesale transformation of Muslim societies, which in turn was a core reason for broad public support of the invasion of Iraq.
They are also trying to dodge the politically fraught topic of layoffs, although most analysts believe that they can be avoided only for a few more months.
In effect, the counter-intuitive aspects of the epistemic theory are avoided only at a cost to other intuitions.
