Sentence examples similar to if only before from inspiring English sources

O'Dowd added that he believes that the attorney general's office had conducted a review several years ago, which made it slightly surprising that the legislation had not been amended before this, "if only as a precaution".

"Sometimes the veil parts, and the children are able to speak and play more normally and use words that didn't seem to be there before, if only for a short time during a fever or other stress" says Robert Naviaux, a geneticist at the University of California, San Diego, who specializes in metabolic disorders.

As someone with a keen interest in futurology, cryonics is an area he's looked into before, if only out of mild curiosity.

Consequently, Thiel likes to invest in startup teams that have worked together before, even if only on college projects.

Oh, if only.... Before all this there is a tortuous framing device in which Manolo's son Robert Dougray Scottt), commissioned to write a book about Josemaría, tries to interview his estranged father (Mr. Bentley in grotesque old-man makeup), who is near death, about his relationship with Josemaría.

But once in a while you will find his animal kingdom in the more rarified environs of the whitebox, if only briefly before he hops a plane to Denmark to paint a tower.

Deng certainly gave Mr Mou his break, if only by releasing him before he was executed.

And I had used the Romantics before, if only to counterpoint the vinyl upholstery in intimate automotive liaisons.