Example sentences of "just [adj] and a " in BNC.

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1 Slim Annette , who weighs just eight and a half stones , said she did not fulfil everyone 's idea of a dame .
2 A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection .
3 In just six and a half hours he has produced the Matterhorn .
4 Forrest value at three million pounds while Liverpool have offered just one and a half million for the England international .
5 International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience .
6 Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth .
7 The task for balloonist and skydiver Ian Ashpole from Ross On Wye was this , to walk between two hot air balloons along a fifteen foot stainless steel rope , just one and a half inches wide at ten thousand five hundred feet .
8 In the spring he finished fourth , just one and a half lengths away from Paris House in the Group Three Palace House Stakes at Newmarket .
9 It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time .
10 Leishman came close to scoring his hat-trick with another fierce volley which went just wide and a header which was brilliantly saved by Gary Mitchell .
11 There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho .
12 Minus one wing it was carefully moved inside with just two and a half inches clearance from the tail and the side of the building !
13 The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago .
14 The Department of Health was alerted last year when it was revealed that the mother of one child , aged just two and a half , had made purchases without prescription from Mr O'Reilly 's pharmacy .
15 The real speed machines here can go from nought to sixty in just two and a half seconds .
16 They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner .
17 After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression .
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