Example sentences of "only just short [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wright 's tone , only just short of saying every other paragraph , ‘ Is n't she awful ! ’ , is rather unpleasant . |
| 3 | The total value of his DOUBLE PAYOUT , in this case , would be only just short of £83,000 ! |
| 4 | Sharpe , meanwhile , is only just short of breaking Art Monk 's NFL record of 106 catches in a season , set in 1984 . |
| 5 | Clearly there is a spectrum ranging from " inadequate " that is clearly wrong to " inadequate " that is only just short of . |