Example sentences of "[verb] to just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 2 | I refer to just a few examples . |
| 3 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |
| 4 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 5 | The leaflet shows a straight-sided bottle , which might hold more fish and be more accommodating to equipment than the teardrop option , which is probably best suited to just a couple of goldfish . |
| 6 | They can put the whole cheese out on the cheeseboard , again I suppose to just a portion going on the cheeseboard . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | During ‘ Sidewalkin' ’ , when the song is reduced to just a bare skeleton and Jim repeats ‘ Chilled to the bone/Chilled o the bone ’ with a single frozen blue light painting the backs of his jeans from the sewer , the world stops . |
| 9 | Recent demonstrations show it has a keyboard reduced to just a few large buttons and a flip-up 4-inch , backlit colour LCD screen . |
| 10 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 11 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 12 | No such action has been taken : the pilot projects apply to just a handful of catchments . |
| 13 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 14 | Later , much later , after the war , Mr Chatto was installed , and after him John Sandoe came along , in 1957 , and that is when I first really took notice of what was soon to become a ‘ singular bookshop ’ as opposed to just a bookseller . |