Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] just [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 2 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 3 | A pond that is iced over for just a few days will come to no harm , but in a prolonged freeze , the fish may suffer unless you take precautions . |
| 4 | Yet , when the time comes for a hermit crab to change shell , having outgrown its present one , it can accomplish the change over in just a few seconds . |
| 5 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 6 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 7 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 8 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 9 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 10 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll find out in just a few minutes , ’ Julius replied . |
| 12 | ‘ My great fear , ’ he told the Society of Conservative Accountants last month , ‘ is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
| 13 | My fear is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
| 14 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |