Example sentences of "[verb] at just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At ten weeks old Thia stands at just twenty one inches . |
| 2 | As the holder of a coveted Swiss resident 's permit , the former premier 's son is taxed at just 12 per cent . |
| 3 | But if we look at just One part of that story in detail , we find complications . |
| 4 | To take an oversimplified example : if an investor buys marks at three to the pound , and the pound falls until it is valued at just two marks , every pound of the original stake will be worth £1.50 at the new rate . |
| 5 | Six lots of six how many are there in your let's let's look at just three lots of two again . |
| 6 | Consider a simple model of an organism that reproduces at just two ages . |
| 7 | He said January 's figures , showing inflation rising at just 1.7 per cent a year , were excellent news and added that surveys showed the UK would have one of the fastest growing economies in Europe this year and next . |
| 8 | By 1980 Iran 's total production capacity , weakened by reservoir depletion , natural pressure decline and a backlog of work on maintenance programmes accumulated over the preceding years , was assessed at just 4 million b/d . |
| 9 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 10 | For launches with the space shuttle , however , underwriters are concluding deals with satellite operators where the premium is set at just 5 per cent . |
| 11 | He suggested that maybe the electrons were not able to orbit at just any distance from the central nucleus but only at certain specified distances . |
| 12 | Lorraine Hurcomb died at just 25 after 25 years of chronic arthritis . |
| 13 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |
| 14 | Only Athenian citizens could profit by allotments of land as ‘ cleruchs ’ ( literally , ‘ allotment-holders ’ ) and it may be more than chance that the qualifications for Athenian citizenship are more closely defined at just this moment ( 451 ) : citizen descent was now required on both sides ( Ath . |
| 15 | They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah . |
| 16 | The trouble is that although Radio 3 may be the most successful network of its kind in the world , it appeals to a minority — estimated at just five per cent of the population , mostly white , male and over 50 . |
| 17 | It is a means of discovering at just eight weeks of pregnancy whether the foetus is normal . |