Sentence examples for was already only from inspiring English sources

The Yankees signed Pettitte to a three-year contract last winter, but he was already only a year away from free agency.

The departure led some to express concerns that the Kansas City Schools District, which was already only provisionally accredited, might be viewed as unstable and would perhaps be subject to a state takeover.

Before the disaster, the number of doctors in this north-eastern region of Japan was already only half the national average.

That last hurdle may require more compromises in a document that is already only half-satisfactory.

However, the hospitalization rate is already only half that of 2014-15, Dr. Jernigan said, so he expects fewer deaths.

And she insists that there will be no appreciable lessening of an autograph's authenticity, because writing is already only a distant cousin of thought.

Those workers are already only a step -- or a second family income -- from poverty, with wages of roughly $18,000 a year.

He is already only one goal short of the total that won him the golden boot in South Africa, and he could become the first player to retain it.

Oh, and show off the East End, too, instead of the endless TV shots of landmarks the rest of the world are already only too familiar with.

"For example, large-scale solar panel power stations are already only half the cost that the Treasury's 2008 and 2011 modelling studies estimated they would be in the year 2030".

And the Olympics, in which Japanese athletes are already only one gold medal short of their record at the 1960 Tokyo games, have given a boost to sales of sportswear and home electronics.