The part of the sentence "he suggests only" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that a person has made one suggestion on a particular matter. For example: "When asked what solution he proposed for the problem, he suggests only one option."
Maybe I should do a line of rock accessories?" he suggests, only half-joking.
He stresses the dangers of open markets and open borders that result, he suggests, only in plagues like mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease.
When I ask him whether his divorce undermined his idea of the man he was, he suggests only that "any crises in one's life make one question oneself.
Fuse life and art, he suggests, only in anticipation of the greatest risks; prepare for the worst, knowing that it's often indistinguishable from the best.
That will no longer be America's business, he suggests; only a genocide would prompt him to intervene again.How many more boots?Apart from the uncertainties of Iraq, there are questions about how much strain America's forces can take.
Mellman is a pollster and focus-group user, one of the most successful political consultants in the business, and he suggests, only half in jest, that whoever first articulated that line of political attack probably relied on polls and focus groups to determine that it worked.
While both parties have extreme elements, he suggested, only in the G.O.P. did the extreme element exercise real power.
He suggested, only half facetiously, that his sale should set off a preservationist outcry for the hotel furniture to be returned to Manhattan.
Although he would have the most to gain if the State Supreme Court deferred to Judge Sauls, he suggested only that the court's power to review Judge Sauls was limited.
"Maybe," he suggested, only half-jokingly, "I should take two or three trade union leaders around with me to talk about this".One final moment of transparency struck me in the meeting with Mr Odell.
