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 . |