Example sentences of "[was/were] just [num] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 2 | They were just two people in love . ’ |
| 3 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 4 | The death of William IV occurred in 1837 , by which time Victoria was just eighteen years of age and , therefore , able to be crowned Queen . |
| 5 | His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London . |