Example sentences of "[prep] just [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’
2 He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds .
3 He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds .
4 Off just a four pounds higher mark , he looks a value bet in a race where the top three are strongly fancied but look likely to struggle giving away so much weight .
5 At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made .
6 They were all out for just a hundred and fifty seven and the outcome was never in doubt after Graham Gooch and Ian Botham an opening stand of fifty in reply .
7 We do n't have beef very often , but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you , by the time you 've cooked it
8 NOW , A PHOTO OF JUST THE TWO OF YOU , MR WYATT
9 Instead of just the two states 1 and 0 , the information technology of living cells uses four states , which we may conventionally represent as A , T , C and G. There is very little difference , in principle , between a two-state binary information technology like ours , and a four-state information technology like that of the living cell .
10 UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead .
11 Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar .
12 It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’
13 The man looked dangerous , and with just the two of them in this house , with no one around within screaming distance , she was n't taking any chances .
14 Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam .
15 A criterion involving only millimetres and centimetres would be a little easier to achieve : 18 per cent obtained the correct order with just the one metre misplaced .
16 My playing greatly resembles my swimming — steady , sturdy and tremendously boring , with just the one stroke .
17 Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us .
18 Tufnell now , with just the three men on the leg side , six on the off , up he comes , bowls this one , tossing it up and driven straight back by , goes straight up to Lawrence mid-off and there 's no run resulting from that .
19 Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance .
20 Erm , you know , maybe it 's something we can do in just a one off during the winter
21 You can zoom in and out of the preview , looking at thumbnails of your pages , or zooming in on just the one page .
22 Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The reduction to just the two land-cover categories , concerned with housing , loses only 3 per cent explanation when compared with the Shotgun model .
26 I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there .
27 It 's charged by just a one litre petrol or diesel generator .
28 Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes .
29 Indeed , fully a quarter of the country 's population is accounted for by just the six largest cities ( defined on a functional rather than administrative basis ) .
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