The phrase "there remains only" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is commonly used to suggest that there are only a few possibilities or options left. For example, "With only one day left in the semester there remains only the final exam."
"The only suspect in this quasi-intentional murder of Zahra Kazemi was innocent, so there remains only one other option," the judiciary said in a statement, explaining that her death "was because of a drop in her blood sugar level caused by her hunger strike, thus making her fall from a standing position and get hurt".
This is continued until the upper half of the peridium has shriveled and blown away and there remains only a few spores, which may be washed away by rain.
There remains only one mystery.
There remains only one problem: You will have to apply soon.
There remains only Gregory, Cromwell's son – someone to use, not love.
There remains only one long-term remedy, and it's still the simplest one: stop feeding grain to cattle.
In fact, there now remains only one option for addressing America's campaign finance problem, and a galvanizing one at that: we must amend the Constitution.
"In the past we've had cases of squirrels being taken for taxidermy and there have been three or four cases recently where our volunteers have gone to the site of reported remains only to get there and for someone to tell them it was picked up by someone else".
Torture and murder were deemed necessary to maintain the racist equilibrium, and in apartheid's aftermath, there remains not only the pent-up rage of the once-subjugated but also the perverse effect the system's wicked strictures had on family life, education and labor markets.
Whoever rises or falls, there remains, as of this moment, only a one-stop-shopping developmental system in the world, fraying in the Atlantic, booming in the Pacific.
There remains devastation: only one of the 7,000 totally destroyed housing units for which the UN refugee agency UNRWA is responsible has been rebuilt, there are daily power cuts, a dire shortage of clean water, the unemployment rate is the highest in the world, and Gaza's 1.8 million population remains effectively imprisoned in the enclave.
