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Discover Ludwig"had been only" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about something that happened at a specific point in the past, but no longer applies. For example: "She had been only three years old at the time."
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And the home crowd had been only mildly forgiving.
Both parents worked in finance; both had been only children.
There had been only two legal plowshares in America.
Pharmaceutical representation had been only one of many available careers.
The room deodorizer had been only a cover-up.
Under NAFTA, the corresponding requirement had been only 62.5percentt.
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Two of our mice that had been only probed by an infected mosquito also became infected.
A decade earlier it had been "only" $75 trillion, a mere 2.5 times global GDP.
One had been only 11 years old when the gang first approached her.
For many years there had been only two out of 40 tenured faculty in the Economics Department who were women.
It had been only a matter of months.
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