Example sentences of "be just [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 2 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 3 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 4 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 5 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 6 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 7 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 8 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 9 | I see from your CV , Mrs Spring , that you graduated in 1972 — so you would have been just TWELVE ? |
| 10 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 11 | Roberta Alexander and Caroline Graham had been just eleven when they first met , new girls at a boarding-school in North Wales . |
| 12 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 13 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 14 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 15 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 16 | Since Beaumont 's days , there have been just ten head gardeners down the generations . |
| 17 | Over the last 12 years , there have been just 28 previous insider dealing trials . |
| 18 | There have been just three winners for the stable to cheer home so far this season . |
| 19 | While typical power stations are just 34 per cent efficient — converting most of their energy into heat lost to the air — CHP systems can reach 80 per cent efficiency . |
| 20 | There are just twelve of us in all . |
| 21 | If only six national newspapers ( the Sun , Daily Mirror , Star , Daily Mail , The Times and Guardian ) are examined , there are just eighteen cases which get coverage in more than three of these newspapers . |
| 22 | The General Manager of Barclays Bank , Trevor Nicholas , has said that out of his 4,000 systems staff there are just 7 that fall into this category . |
| 23 | There are just six fundamental interpersonal skills which give us a process that is equally applicable in ill situations . |
| 24 | The lean ecology here means the entire 150 years of diatom layers are just 5 cm deep . |
| 25 | They are the subject of an intensive release programme in central Wales where there are just 70 breeding pairs . |
| 26 | Tennis , rugby , golf , hockey and cricket are just five sports that have begun to offer an alternative to the role traditionally played by schools . |
| 27 | There are just five campus bookshops in the whole of France . |
| 28 | Raffles Hotel and Chinatown are just five minutes away , and the Satay Club , an open air food centre , is nearby . |
| 29 | There are just four days left to catch Declan Hughes 's excellent Digging for Fire at the Bush Theatre , Shepherd 's Bush Green . |
| 30 | They are just four normal blokes and they have not compromised at all . |