Example sentences of "just for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 2 | Just for a wee while . |
| 3 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |
| 4 | Set in the first instance at 17.5 million b/d , the ceiling remained at about this level , subject to variations ( sometimes just for a specific quarter ) , for most of the decade . |
| 5 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 6 | Just for a split second Mrs. Fanshawe had thought it was . |
| 7 | to just make it erm , shut out just for a split second |
| 8 | ‘ Just for a few minutes . |
| 9 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |
| 10 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 11 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 12 | ‘ I need your help just for a few minutes . |
| 13 | Spend some time reading or , even better , join a class and then practise , practise , practise — just for a few minutes each day . |
| 14 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 15 | Innumerable country spires turn bronze amid newly ploughed fields of copper , just for a few moments before the ball disappears . |
| 16 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 17 | Just for a few weeks . ’ |
| 18 | And just for a few minutes she savoured the circuitous routes of pleasure . |
| 19 | Just for a few minutes ? |
| 20 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 21 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 22 | Just for a few minutes , she needed to be near to him . |
| 23 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 24 | ‘ Just for a few days or so … something to ease the pain ? ’ |
| 25 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 26 | Just for a few more days ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ On Trippy 's floor , just for a few days . ’ |
| 28 | Roll the cake up towards that end and hold in place just for a few minutes . |
| 29 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
| 30 | Yes , just for a few questions if you 've gathered your thoughts together . |