Example sentences of "finish just [num] " in BNC.

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1 CHAMPIONS Chelmsford finished just 10 runs short of victory in the opening round of matches in this season 's Colour Assembly Essex League .
2 2.35:KEEN Hunter finished just two lengths runner-up to Mr Brooks in the Prix l'Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc weekend , but is worth opposing over today 's extra furlong .
3 Fignon , who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 , and finished just eight seconds behind Greg Lemond this year , failed the test after his team , Super U , placed second in the Grand Prix de la Liberation in Eindhoven on 17 September .
4 Welshman Jackson , who finished just one-hundredth of a second outside his European record with a 7.42sec run in Sindelfingen last weekend , will have his Cardiff lodger , Canadian Olympic champion Mark McKoy , and America 's former double Olympic gold medallist Roger Kingdom to push him towards Greg Foster 's 7.36sec mark .
5 The Ballymena and Antrim team , though , pushed them to the limit , finishing just two points adrift .
6 Brown had to be at her very best in the breaststroke event as Emma Robinson of Coleraine pushed her all the way , finishing just 0.6 secs behind in the runner-up spot .
7 Way lifted his battered body from the treatment table to finish just three shots behind South African pace-setter Palmer , who stroked a glorious seven-under par 63 .
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