Example sentences of "the [noun sg] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 2 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 3 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 4 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 5 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 6 | Was the skirt just a shade too short ? |
| 7 | Stretch forwards gently for 20 counts , moving the body just a fraction with each count . |
| 8 | Stretch forwards gently for 15 counts , moving the body just a fraction with each count . |
| 9 | Is the leader just a leader or are there several different types ? |
| 10 | To pipe stars , hold the bag at right angles to the surface to be iced , with the nozzle just a hair 's breadth away . |
| 11 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 12 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 13 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 14 | John Power if you 'd like to stay on the line just a moment , because I 've got another gentleman who wants to actually talk about that , it 's Les erm calling from Oxford — hello Les . |
| 15 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 16 | ‘ Twelve months later the conclusion is that the race does n't always go to the swift — even if it is the way the bookmaker bets , ’ commented Mike Gaston , the station 's managing director , who took over running the company just a year ago . |
| 17 | to come to my house , when you go over that bridge there 's one further over on the left just a footbridge from the Joiners |
| 18 | This makes landing accurately on the spot just a matter of timing the opening of the airbrakes and co-ordinating the elevator movement . |