Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] just [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 2 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 3 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 4 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 5 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |