Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a news conference on Jan. 18 , 1990 , Borja announced that inflation had been brought down to just over 54 per cent in December 1989 after reaching a record 99.1 per cent in March ; a further objective of the administration had been to reduce the accumulated annual inflation rate to 30 per cent for 1989 . |
| 2 | There was , however , a steady reduction of American troops from 1969 ; the almost half a million men had by 1973 been cut down to just over 20 000 . |
| 3 | I was an old London man myself , and at one time I was manager of the branch in Upper Thames Street — that 's going back to just after the war . |
| 4 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 5 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
| 6 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |