Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , the early EG models , which sold for just under £600 , did n't seem to have the feel or charisma of the Customs and Classics . |
| 2 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 3 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 4 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 5 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 6 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 7 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 8 | The robbers fled with just £10 . |
| 9 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 10 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 11 | These show an accelerating rate of growth , not only in the rate of increase in VAT registered businesses , to a net average of 1,200 a week in the past year — 50 per cent up on the previous year — but also in the self-employed , who rose from just under two million to more than three million . |
| 12 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 13 | Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 . |
| 14 | I am not sure what you referred to just now as ’ an abuse ’ . |
| 15 | You What some you were erm , erm , put off by there , was the fact that these senses , I referred to just by their noun , like smell and touch , and you did n't recognise there , was reference to the whole sense . |
| 16 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 17 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 18 | When we last surveyed the audit fees of the FT-SE 100 constituents ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1991 , p 12 ) , total audit fees rose by just over 2% , as compared with a much more buoyant 11% — although at the time considered to be modest — the year before ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 14 ) . |
| 19 | But the bill for nurses ' and midwives ' pay rose by just 60 PER CENT in the same period . |
| 20 | He found that the weight of rubbish put out weekly by the average household fell from 25.6 pounds ( 11.6 kilos ) to 23.4 pounds — and the average weight of each rubbish bin rose by just over 42% , as citizens perfected the Seattle stomp . |
| 21 | Their prices rose by just 30% between 1975 and 1983 , suggesting that despite their historical importance , their work was being eclipsed by the Impressionists and the School of Paris . |
| 22 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 23 | For example , the Maldives in the Indian Ocean consist of 1196 atolls inhabited by 177,000 people , and they would virtually disappear if sea level rose by just 1 metre ( Boyle and Ardill , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | THE number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year soared by 60 per cent , while company failures rose by just over 8 per cent . |
| 25 | Forte announced a group pre-tax profit fall of 62 per cent from £190 million to £73 million on turnover which rose by just one per cent to £2.66 billion . |
| 26 | In Northamptonshire it rose by just 2% . |
| 27 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |
| 28 | He believed a truer picture of the company 's performance was given by earnings figures calculated on a current-cost basis , which rose by just 8 per cent to £3.1 billion on turnover which fell by more than £1 billion to £73 billion . |
| 29 | MIPCOM takes place over five days — — though not being exhibitors with all the setting-up and taking-down of displays ( video-screens , logos , stylish furniture , programme brochures , all de rigueur ) — we opted for just three days . |
| 30 | Last year , 843 players vied for just 40 cards with another 10 players earning their playing cards by finishing in the top-10 of the Challenge Tour 's Order of Merit . |