only avenue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofonlyandavenue
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only
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈəʊn.li/us/ˈoʊn.li/
used to show that there is a single one or very few of something, or that there are ...
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avenue
noun[C]
uk/ˈæv.ə.njuː/us/ˈæv.ə.nuː/
a wide road with trees or tall buildings on both sides, or a wide country path or road with trees on ...
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(Definition ofonlyandavenuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, a mathematical approach is not theonlyavenueopen.
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Theonlyavenueopen is to reduce standards, and we have seen something of that.
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That is one useful avenue ; it is not theonlyavenue.
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Theonlyavenueopen to parents is costly and time-consuming legal action.
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I was told that myonlyavenuewas to get lucky and win a balloted motion.
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We may look forward to no distant time when the training college will be theonlyavenueof entrance into the scholastic profession.
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Is that theonlyavenueof hope for unemployed women?
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He has stated that charter services are to be left open, and that is theonlyavenueleft open to private initiative.
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There is the category of the majority, in which theonlyavenueof relief isviathe magistrates' court.
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We must work on the basis of the existing settlement—that is theonlyavenueof approach.
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That being so, it may happen that theonlyavenueopen to them is the motor bicycle upon the roads.
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If security cannot be obtained through naval and military commitments, then theonlyavenueleft is that of economic sanctions.
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Here you have a body of 5,000 men, and theonlyavenueof promotion open to them is eighteen lieutenant-engineers, and this only comes to them very late in life.
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It is designed simply for the protection of design so as to prevent duality of protection with the copyright law which has hitherto been theonlyavenueof approach.
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Theonlyavenuethat is effectively open to them is the right to petition, which must carry with it the right to have adequate time to prepare the petition.
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For the tenant who feels that he is being overcharged for electricity, theonlyavenuefor redress is to make an application in the county court.
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These people go to agents because the agents represent themselves as, and they are in too many cases, theonlyavenueby which such people can secure employment.
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Theonlyavenueof escape for it is by the fine glass siphon, and through this it rushes accordingly and discharges itself upon the paper.
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In fact, for many of the films screened, the festival is theonlyavenueof distribution.
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