Example sentences of "were just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 2 | Well they were just just held in the barns too . |
| 3 | It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 . |
| 4 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 5 | ‘ At the Highbury semi-final there were just over 300 officers on duty . |
| 6 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 7 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 8 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 9 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 10 | They were just over two inches each in size . |
| 11 | Total fines were just over £1 million . |
| 12 | We have seen that there were just over 100 there in 1875 . |
| 13 | The financial importance of this seizure for Edward III has yet to be satisfactorily explored and calculated , though it was clearly considerable : there were just over a hundred cells or estates involved and in the financial years 1342–3 and 1345–6 they paid farms to the king totalling £5304. 7/ 7d. and £4181. 8/. 2d. respectively . |
| 14 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 15 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 16 | They were just physically impossible to move in and out of the studios . |
| 17 | The Jewish gangs were just outside . |
| 18 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 19 | We were just both admiring a lovely antique bureau . ’ |
| 20 | The stacks were just simply not there . |
| 21 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 22 | she was getting through them , they were just slower |
| 23 | at the Barbican , they were just completely sold out . |
| 24 | They were just slightly different types of work which were being done . |
| 25 | They were just slightly under the weather . |
| 26 | Perhaps they were just ahead of their time . |
| 27 | At the interval MIS 1 were just ahead of the posse by one point . |
| 28 | No-one could deny the lungs on the girl , but DM 's ‘ Dull Dull Dull ’ was suspiciously bereft of dimension , as if the band were just stylishly filling the indie hair shirt . |
| 29 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 30 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |