Example sentences of "[prep] just a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 A quick look at just a few areas of today 's public relations work confirms that prediction :
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