Sentence examples for only a term from inspiring English sources

In the Philippine language there is also no biological term for "vagina" – only a term used in derogatory circumstances.

Only a term of unusual excellent in office can pay off this frightful and burdensome public debt.

Some of Danner's work has my complete admiration — "a European niche in American letters" is only a term of abuse if you want it to be.

Byrne says the Tories returned to power after only a term in opposition precisely because Thatcher engaged in an argument about what her party was for.

It took only a term to get her higher school certificate, and she sat the Oxbridge exams and went up to Newnham to read Modern Languages.

What they knew was that Quick knew Detective Zahrey from the Brooklyn neighborhood in which both men lived, and that Quick was facing not only a term of six years to life in Sing Sing as a persistent violent offender, but the possibility of being prosecuted for additional violent crimes.

If your lack of magnesium is only a short term condition, you most likely won't see any symptoms.

For the term is not only a technical term of Cartesian physics.

In fact, it was only half a term.

Gumbo had been at the school for only half a term before he withdrew.

Under the changed sentencing guidelines, he would have only faced a term of eight and a half years.