Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] just [num] " in BNC.

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1 Assume ( a ) that banks hold just three types of asset : cash , bills and advances ; ( b ) that they operate a 10 per cent liquidity ratio ; and ( c ) that they acquire additional cash deposits of £1 million .
2 To illustrate this process in its simplest form , assume that banks have just one type of liability — deposits — and two types of asset — balances with the Bank of England ( to achieve liquidity ) , and advances to customers ( to earn profit ) .
3 All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship .
4 However , the company had adopted a new accounting policy on the treatment of exploration and development expenditure and changed its year-end to the calendar year used by the industry for exploration budgets and profits cover just nine months , against 12 last time .
5 Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin stands at the edge of a relatively small , distinctive subset of irreverent fabliaux , fabliaux which powerfully exploit the inherent realism of the genre by reducing the characters and setting of the Christian heaven to a comically mundane and very human level : Heaven and Hell become just two alternatives amongst the familiar loci of the fabliaux .
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