Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 2 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 3 | if they 're not in just slip it through the door you ca n't keep |
| 4 | If you are worried about facial hair , they 're out in just seconds . |
| 5 | Well they 're there for just covering the ones that 're in the handout . |
| 6 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 7 | If the kerfuffle is well publicised ( which this one was ) , its effect is much stronger — especially as the onlooking equity markets are now in just the mood to go for gold . |
| 8 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My great fear , ’ he told the Society of Conservative Accountants last month , ‘ is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
| 10 | My fear is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
| 11 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 12 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 13 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 14 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 15 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 16 | The workforce , 4,300 before the revolution , is down to just over 3,000 ( including 1,000 employees on short-time ) ; the final figure is likely to be about 2,000 . |
| 17 | Capacity is down to just over 90 million tonnes . |
| 18 | A Jaguar of the same vintage is down to just £7,000 , and an H-registration Ford Scorpio 2.0i automatic which currently costs £18,000 could be yours for a mere £6,850. depreciation of more than £5,000 a year , or £100 per week . |
| 19 | A meeting to decide next year 's budget is formally about just that — fixing the budget . |
| 20 | No , it 's more like just save ourselves more |
| 21 | In fact the listener is probably in just the right psychological state of expectation to hear again what he has just heard ( or a slight variation of it ) . |
| 22 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 23 | That £2,000 is now worth just £609 , just 29pc of its original value . |
| 24 | That £2,000 is now worth just £386 . |
| 25 | So he 's back on just er but , I have another box at home and it 's , it 's a round box with |
| 26 | ‘ I was down to just one spare player for the game against Ards and the knock to Strang was another bad blow , ’ he said . |
| 27 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 28 | Seven o'clock in the morning at seven o'clock till four , I think it was and then er it would be two till ten , you see , but the Stationmaster was always about just in case I was late er you know , not there by seven . |
| 29 | He was back in just a couple of minutes , and his face was set into dark , angry lines . |
| 30 | This wood is church property and no one suspected anything was here until just recently . |