Example sentences of "[prep] just a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
| 2 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
| 3 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 4 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 5 | After just a few sucks at the bottle , Nicola began to explore my room . |
| 6 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | Off just a four pounds higher mark , he looks a value bet in a race where the top three are strongly fancied but look likely to struggle giving away so much weight . |
| 9 | The success of modestly-priced courses such as East Horton and the increasing popularity of driving ranges , where anyone can turn up with a three wood and a five iron and whack a basket of balls for just a few pounds , shows that golf can still thrive in the recession — if the price is right . |
| 10 | There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month . |
| 11 | Jane 's mum Mary , 50 , was beaten to death for just a few pounds in 1981 . |
| 12 | And all of this for just a few pounds . |
| 13 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 14 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 15 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 16 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 17 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 18 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 19 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |
| 20 | For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms . ’ |
| 21 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 22 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 23 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 24 | The cellular type are best for just a few seeds : sow two or three in each cell and thin to one if more germinate . |
| 25 | The completed portraits now hang in the Quaderia dell'Ospedale Maggiore , and can be seen on occasions , for just a few weeks every other year as a rule . |
| 26 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
| 27 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 28 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 29 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 30 | A pond that is iced over for just a few days will come to no harm , but in a prolonged freeze , the fish may suffer unless you take precautions . |