Sentence examples for is surely only from inspiring English sources

Yet, we should be careful with our conclusions, since vowel purity is surely only one factor that may have contributed to Old Chinese rhyming practice, and we cannot be sure how important this factor was.

It is surely only a wish-fulfilment.

But that is surely only part of the story.

It is surely only a matter of time, though.

A turn on the menswear catwalk for Prada is surely only a matter of time.

But it is surely only a matter of time before the British high street catches on.

Beating them over two legs was surely only a formality.

But it's surely only a matter of time.

But that's surely only a ­matter of time..

Having established that there was surely only one man, everyone's favourite second keeper: Steve Harper.

We are surely only a small step from the unquestioned purchasing of emotions or air.