Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] by just " in BNC.
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1 | By the mid 1980s over two-thirds of Britain 's non-white population was made up by just three broad cultural groups — Indians ( 760,000 ) , West Indians ( 534,000 ) and Pakistanis ( 397,000 ) . |
2 | The Dinas Mawddwy Railway is remarkable even by the standards of the last century in that it was financed largely by just one man , Mr Edmund Buckley of Bryn Hall , Llanymawddwy . |
3 | All along Park Lane they backed on to Hyde Park , and the whole space between the Ritz Hotel and Berkeley Square was taken up by just two very grand ones . |
4 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
5 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
6 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |