Example sentences of "in just a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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31 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
32 | It 's the fourth attack on the very old in the Milton Keynes area in just a few months . |
33 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |
34 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
35 | In just a few years , Chilean fishermen have inflicted damage on dolphin stocks which will take decades , if not centuries , to repair . |
36 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
37 | 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 . |
38 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
39 | I see it as asking : ‘ What reasons do governments feel justify their vast spending on weapons and equipment , which are more important than : a ) public opinion , and b ) the knowledge that such armaments are bound to become obsolete in just a few years ’ time ? ’ |