Sentence examples for had only won from inspiring English sources

Women had only won an equal right to vote ten years before Woolf wrote Three Guineas.

*   *   * Rolf had been playing the lottery for years but he had only won once.

In Virginia, Obama won six of 11 districts – Kerry had only won two of them.

When the non-computerised decision was announced, I had only won on two of the three judges's scorecards.

Lille were looking for their fifth successive home win while Nantes had only won three games all season.

We could rule out countries that had only won a few medals, but we'd still have the Koreans above us.

For example, when Widnes won the last of their three titles in 1989, Leeds had only won three.

Dropping a key midseason game at Milwaukee, where the Bucks had only won twice in their last nine home games, is another.

Fucsovics is 33 places behind 149th-ranked Evans and had only won a single grand slam qualifying match prior to arriving in Melbourne but he was rock solid.

Northampton, who had only won three of the previous 12 Premiership matches against Saracens, had more of an edge and were more resourceful with the ball in hand.

Mr Carter had only won his home state of Georgia, Massachusetts, the bastion of his rival, Senator Edward Kennedy, the heavily Democratic District of Columbia, and West Virginia.