Example sentences of "to just a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During ‘ Sidewalkin' ’ , when the song is reduced to just a bare skeleton and Jim repeats ‘ Chilled to the bone/Chilled o the bone ’ with a single frozen blue light painting the backs of his jeans from the sewer , the world stops . |
| 2 | Dale 's new owners , Sir David Guyler , Eric Dring , and Colin Speed who established the company in the early nineteen seventies it was taken over by the multinational Beaufort Group in nineteen eighty nine and by September this year the workforce had been cut from two hundred to just a hundred and ten . |
| 3 | put it down to just a useful . |
| 4 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 5 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 6 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |
| 7 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 8 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 9 | Recent demonstrations show it has a keyboard reduced to just a few large buttons and a flip-up 4-inch , backlit colour LCD screen . |
| 10 | I refer to just a few examples . |
| 11 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 12 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 13 | RUC have to thank their custodian Kenny Cairns for keeping the scoreline to just a single goal . |