Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] in just " in BNC.

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1 Mr Gough said that the merger discussions had been completed in just three weeks .
2 Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances .
3 A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door .
4 At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years .
5 Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants .
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