Example sentences of "[prep] just a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
| 2 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 3 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 4 | After just a few sucks at the bottle , Nicola began to explore my room . |
| 5 | Jane 's mum Mary , 50 , was beaten to death for just a few pounds in 1981 . |
| 6 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 7 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 8 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 9 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 10 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 11 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 12 | The couple , who met only seven months ago , first wed in a hush-hush civil ceremony in Los Angeles in April with just a few friends as witnesses . |
| 13 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
| 14 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 15 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
| 16 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 17 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 18 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |
| 19 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 20 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
| 21 | Average age for the ceasing of menstruation is around 50 , but the hot flushes and sweating that can accompany it are more common after the periods have ended , and may last from just a few months to more than five years . |
| 22 | According to the event , the duration of this state may last from just a few months to many years . |
| 23 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 24 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 25 | Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers . |
| 26 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 27 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 28 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 29 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 30 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |