Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] just [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain three-quarters of all daily newspapers are owned by just three companies . |
| 2 | More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed onto just 16 per cent of the land . |
| 3 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 4 | ‘ Tops ’ or soundboards are made from just two woods : Swiss pine for the very best instruments , Western red cedar for the others . |
| 5 | The existence of other endothelin receptors also seems to be increasingly likely ; indeed , it may well be difficult to imagine that the actions of three different peptides are mediated by just two receptors . |
| 6 | Although you are changing colour every two rows , usually as long as long as you are changing between just two of your colours , the card is n't marked . |
| 7 | For analysis of women 's relations to technology in the present day , the meat at the centre of this sandwich , we are left with just three articles . |
| 8 | If clarification requests are divided into just two categories , potential ( being those categories where the listener actively contributes to the negotiation by introducing new information ) , and simple ( the remaining categories ) , and these are set against the number of inadequate messages produced , a number of interesting findings emerges . |
| 9 | Two-thirds of such derived papers are published in just eight journals . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of such derived papers are published in just eight journals . |