Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a peak of 400 mines around 1850 , the number has fallen to just four . |
| 2 | But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 4 | Stoute , who knows the family well , said : ‘ He has grown to just over 15.2 hands , which is a nice size for a racehorse , and I am hopeful that he will get further than a mile . ’ |
| 5 | The number of passengers using the service has grown by just over 16pc this year . |
| 6 | Because in American life there is now no social agreement on the fundamentals of behaviour and morality , there is now equally no consensus on the fundamentals of the art that in the past has sprung from just such social agreement . |
| 7 | Over the years , the proportion of family cases has settled at just over 40 per cent. ; crime at around 22 per cent. ; landlord and tenant and housing , and hire purchase and debt , at around 6 per cent . |
| 8 | The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency . |
| 9 | Jeff Dujon has tried to take evasive action from a ball that has climbed from just short of a length , but has gloved it . |
| 10 | A massive TV advertising campaign against drink-driving has warned of just such a tragedy . |
| 11 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 12 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 13 | Actually , I 've got a bit of cash , some policy I 'd forgotten about just realized , I was wondering what to do with it . |
| 14 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 15 | Meet the bundle of emotions he 'd created with just one of his psych-tech tricks . |
| 16 | Dr Jane Teas , of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston , Massachusetts , believes that AIDS could have originated with just one Haitian homosexual eating infected pork . |
| 17 | We were surprised to find that the 750 was only partially assembled , having expected to just pull it out of its box and start using it . |
| 18 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 19 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 20 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 21 | Except ‘ Three Little Birds ’ , which , although it might have sounded like just a jolly little song , was , in fact , a metaphorical indictment of the whole superpower system . |
| 22 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 23 | At the Manor Ground the crowd would have settled for just one goal ; the 0-0 scoreline does the game justice . |
| 24 | ‘ But they would never have reacted to just our pictures or our ceramics . |
| 25 | It implied she would n't have gone with just anybody . |
| 26 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 27 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 28 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 29 | Only 40% of the world 's potential arable land was in use in 1975 , and that will have increased to just 50% in 2000 . |
| 30 | The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) . |