Example sentences of "[adv] just short [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Paul Bagni , general manager of Dalgety , said : ‘ I am convinced the pilot was aiming for an old airfield behind our plant but came down just short of it . ’ |
| 2 | Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . |
| 3 | Wright 's tone , only just short of saying every other paragraph , ‘ Is n't she awful ! ’ , is rather unpleasant . |
| 4 | The total value of his DOUBLE PAYOUT , in this case , would be only just short of £83,000 ! |
| 5 | Sharpe , meanwhile , is only just short of breaking Art Monk 's NFL record of 106 catches in a season , set in 1984 . |
| 6 | Clearly there is a spectrum ranging from " inadequate " that is clearly wrong to " inadequate " that is only just short of . |
| 7 | It comes up just short of the green , but he can putt it and he says , ‘ I can take four putts from here and still win . ’ |
| 8 | Slowly , it moved upwards among jagged folds of rock hanging like petrified curtains above their heads ; it swung to the right and travelled downwards , glistening on a myriad crystalline particles in the rock face ; it moved across to the left and traced a black line where the stone floor ended abruptly just short of the far wall . |
| 9 | However , in view of the fact that the fielding team is compelled to position two attacking fieldsmen , bowlers bowl either just short of a length hoping for a slip catch , or well up angling for a driven chance to short cover or mid-wicket . |