Example sentences of "needed just " in BNC.

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1 Fifteen years ago the Renault 12 lookalike needed just over six litres to cover 60 miles the current model drinks seven .
2 Gower needed just two runs to reach 7,000 in his hundredth Test and got them , only to fall immediately to a quite unnecessary flick down the leg side .
3 When he was out England had ten overs to score 39 , with five wickets left , and by the beginning of the penultimate over needed just seven with three wickets left .
4 Sunderland teenager Michael Gray needed just 44 seconds to establish himself in Roker Park folklore during their 2-1 defeat of Barnsley .
5 Another victory in the incandescent heat of Austria , where Stewart had led for twenty-three laps , brought Emerson to Monza with the title within his grasp : he needed just three points to clinch the championship .
6 As the Owls entered the last 25 minutes , they needed just one goal to square the tie — and they looked perfectly capable of getting it .
7 Hooper , who top-scored with an unbeaten 81 in West Indies ' meagre first innings total of 183 in reply to New South Wales 's 473–5 declared , needed just 102 deliveries for his century .
8 J Seabourne needed just 14 oz to win .
9 And he was the last person Carver needed just now .
10 She reported that she was sure she would be able to prove something , but it needed just one operation , with more money .
11 At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn .
12 The Horn of Africa , the subject of the third famine warning in four years , was again worst hit and needed just under two-thirds of total emergency aid .
13 So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well .
14 Gourlay , however , refused to let the incident upset him and needed just three ends before completing a 7-0 opening set whitewash over his Swansea-based opponent .
15 Corsie needed just 18 ends to complete his 7-4 , 7-3 , 7-3 win .
16 Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship .
17 STEPHEN HENDRY needed just 17 minutes here last night to improve upon his only previous meeting against Irish champion Joe Swail .
18 Clinton needed just 270 electoral votes to take the White House .
19 Arsenal needed just seventeen minutes for Merson to break the deadlock , two minutes before the break , Dixon made it two nil .
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