The phrase "only exerted" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that was only done or exerted in a specific situation or to a certain degree. Here's an example: "The athlete had been training for months, but her true potential was only exerted during the final race of the season."
The holders only exerted themselves either side of the interval, but it was enough.
The opening felt a bit too detached and the work only exerted its full grip from the first movement's storm sequence onwards.
HBC not only exerted significant ant-proliferation activity against five human cancer cell lines, especially for HepG2 cell with an IC50 value of 2.21 μM, which is nearly three-fold lower than SAHA (IC50 = 6.26 µM), but also showed selective HDAC1/6 inhibitory effects in vitro.
However, the effect of some genetic variants is only exerted in combination with environmental or other genetic risk factors [38].
The fact that KlBat1 is mainly biosynthetic and its catabolic role is only exerted when VIL is added to the medium excludes the operation of futile cycles.
The FAs not only exerted the tangential force within cell (traction force as aforementioned), but also the normal force applied to the rigid floor.
Netherlands controls the ball, but mostly in the middle of the field, as Portugal only exerts benign challenges.
They can't control emigration and they can only exert influence on immigration from nationals whose citizenship is from outside the EU.
Horses in Europe, who run on the turf, and only exert themselves all out at the end of fairly long races, do not break down as frequently as American horses on American tracks.
Together with some essential volumes of poetry (see Nos 4, 11 and 17), this extraordinary drama would not only exert a profound influence on the postwar imagination, it would provide a metaphor for existence.
"The automatic spending cuts ('sequester') not only exert a heavy toll on growth in the short term but the indiscriminate reductions in education, science and infrastructure spending could also reduce medium-term potential growth," said the IMF.
