Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcome back:Nominations for candidates in the general election closed just a couple of hours ago . |
| 2 | Allowing for the vagaries of memory , plus some very likely embellishing in the way Whitaker recounted the tale to his , then , fiancee , it is possible that the above tale contains just a couple of overt simplifications . |
| 3 | The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in . |
| 4 | The old Escorts went up more than 12 per cent last year , the last rise coming just a couple of weeks before the introduction of the new model . |
| 5 | Netwise 's latest crisis comes just a year after its then UK subsidiary , Netwise International Ltd , went into liquidation , owing substantial amounts to both the parent organisation and other creditors . |
| 6 | Netwise 's latest crisis comes just a year after its then UK subsidiary , Netwise International Ltd , went into liquidation owing substantial amounts to both the parent organisation and other creditors . |
| 7 | This time , thought Thiercelin , the practised smile held just a hint of strain . |
| 8 | When she looked over the side in surprise , to her horror a huge orca surfaced just a metre away . |