Sentence examples for but instead only from inspiring English sources

He found that this optimal rate was not 83 percent, the top rate in Britain at the time, but instead only 20 percent.

A sample of 16 insurers in the test were expected to increase their reserves by $10 billion, he said, but instead only $668 million was added.

Then imagine that we knew how to cure more than half of them, quickly and cost-effectively, but instead only one in 40 of them was receiving proper treatment.

Clearly, the idea here is not to back up your entire hard drive — SugarSync doesn't offer enough storage for that — but instead, only your documents, music, photos and so on.

The report says that the Justice Department's concerns were focused on the Internet metadata program, which was then based on a theory that the N.S.A. did not "acquire," for legal purposes, the bulk communications when it collected them, but instead only when human analysts selected certain data to examine because it met certain criteria.

The rise of tablets, Kindles and online editing has not signalled the death of the printed book, but instead only alerted scholars to the importance of its history as a physical object, and provided us with digitised tools that enable us to work at an unprecedented speed and comparative detail.

But prosecutors have instead only increased the figure as the investigation has worn on.

But "the ruling has, instead, only added to the sense of a hard-fought revolution slipping away".

Indian officials had thought Mr. Wen might reverse the stapled visas policy on his trip, but he instead only called for more diplomatic consultations.

In Iowa, for instance, the governor commuted the life sentences of 38 people convicted of committing murder when they were juveniles, but offered instead only the possibility of parole after 60 years in prison.

Instead, only £18bn will be cut.