Example sentences of "[noun] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 2 | Was the skirt just a shade too short ? |
| 3 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 4 | Now locate the drilled side just a shade higher so that as you hammer the pin in place it moves down just far enough to produce a perfect joint . |
| 5 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 6 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 7 | Martin Gilfellan had taken the car just a few minutes before the accident and was being followed by the police when he drove straight over a junction . |
| 8 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |
| 9 | If one place in Britain has become inextricably associated with the unpleasant side of the nuclear industry , it is the giant complex of reactors and waste handling facilities on the Cumbrian coast just a short drive away from the Lake District . |
| 10 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 11 | He has taken his obsession just a little bit too far . ’ |
| 12 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 13 | You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal . |
| 14 | Hannah Hauxwell 's somewhat late introduction to the benefits of modern civilization , such as water that arrived at the turn of a tap , central heating , shops just a few yards away , even a telephone ( the number is ex-directory or it would never stop ) , clearly created a revolution in her life Her financial situation also improved dramatically with a tidy amount left from the sale of Low Birk Hatt to invest , and substantial sums from the royalties of her best-selling book . |
| 15 | Colwyn Bay is also looking to the future with its brand-new Colwyn Centre , a superbly-designed covered shopping complex just a stone 's throw from the promenade and beach . |
| 16 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 17 | Technology is partly to blame : celluloid prints have been superseded by the smooth replications of digital imaging , and for modern Hollywood , as for the music biz , there is no such thing as the original cut just a series of alternative ‘ takes ’ or mixes . |
| 18 | Fergus drove quickly on , trees flicking past like green ghosts to the right , the waters of the loch just a dark absence on the left . |
| 19 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |
| 20 | Curl the toes back and raise both arms towards the toes , lifting the head and shoulders just a few inches off the floor . |
| 21 | Yes I heard a very interesting conversation on the way down here in that programme Just a Minute |
| 22 | A Darlington jeweller has become the new chairman of the town 's business club just a year after joining it . |
| 23 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 24 | To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees . |
| 25 | Some of the early names of this type have disappeared — Ibbotdoghter , Rogerdaughter , Hannebrother , Prestebruther , to instance just a few — and the compounds which survive , such as Hickmott ( which includes magh = brother-in-law ) are very rare . |
| 26 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 27 | Both belong to the Caprice club which skates at sports centres at Middlesbrough , Eston and Shildon just a quick flip from their homes . |
| 28 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 29 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 30 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |