Example sentences of "just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Anne Collins , ten years younger than me , taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there . |
| 2 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 3 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 4 | I 've had just about enough of this . |
| 5 | The telephones kept me just about busy but the potential for job satisfaction in the tasks I was required to do was almost nil . |
| 6 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 7 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 8 | ‘ I think that is just about that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was one of their less incandescent members of staff — they just about kicked me out actually . ’ |
| 10 | This was potentially just about the safest ‘ skipper ’ in Britain . |
| 11 | There was just about room to lie crossways , but not front to back , and there were no windows . |
| 12 | If this was how things worked , just about every war veteran that ever was would ‘ inevitably ’ end up homeless because of their past . |
| 13 | I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it . |
| 14 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 15 | ‘ Since Christmas , just about . |
| 16 | ‘ Where I work 's the same , just about . |
| 17 | That just about wraps it up . |
| 18 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 19 | Provided the approach path was correct beforehand , the adverse yaw as the aileron is applied swings the nose off to just about the right point to keep the glider on the correct path . |
| 20 | Good health is not just about providing efficient , high quality medical services . |
| 21 | it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head . |
| 22 | Some burning sun , black clouds , rain and wind were the backdrop to another highly agreeable fortnight in Paris at just about the perfect time of year . |
| 23 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 24 | Tip on the concrete and level out with a rake until it is just about the level of the formwork |
| 25 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 26 | As Jonathan Martin , the BBC head of sport , put it : ‘ It 's not just about having the biggest cheque on the table . |
| 27 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 28 | Just about everything works well enough in this competent but hardly inspiring production . |
| 29 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
| 30 | The finales to both Acts are effectively concerts , the sort of agreeably naff rock'n'roll revival that might just about pass muster as a Capital Gold one-nighter down the Hammersmith Palais . |