Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] just [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 2 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 3 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 4 | More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed onto just 16 per cent of the land . |
| 5 | Dr Jane Teas , of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston , Massachusetts , believes that AIDS could have originated with just one Haitian homosexual eating infected pork . |
| 6 | Any pattern can be designed in just two colours , which would be all that is needed if you want to create punchcard or Mylar charts for tuck , slip , weaving and so on . |
| 7 | 120 OR SO PLANT-BASED DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR WORLD-WIDE USE COME FROM JUST 95 SPECIES — MANY KNOWN FOR CENTURIES |
| 8 | Nearly all the original Italian families in the North-East come from just two small areas of Italy — Cassino in the south and Barga in Tuscany . |
| 9 | The system means calls can be located in just 30 seconds at the push of a button , including those made from mobile phones , call boxes and even abroad . |
| 10 | Or brewed in just 2 to 3 weeks . |
| 11 | The spokesman explained : ‘ When problems can not be resolved in just one 15 minute call , Grant Thornton can provide further help either by telephone or by a visit to the caller 's farm subject to their normal terms of business . ’ |
| 12 | By November 1938 it had shortened to just twenty . |
| 13 | Twenty years previously this traffic had amounted to just two million tonnes per annum . |
| 14 | The 80 emergency exchanges would be slashed to just three with the loss of 8,000 trained operators . |
| 15 | How can you prevent the discussion from becoming dominated by just one or two people ? |
| 16 | Her whole life seemed to be dominated by just one man , so that she could concentrate on little else . |
| 17 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 18 | In Britain three-quarters of all daily newspapers are owned by just three companies . |
| 19 | This was done for just 24 of the stimuli , all showing junctions . |
| 20 | It is for this reason that a study carried out by Addison ( 1984 ) in the London Borough of Wandsworth , of the social care plans that were made for just two elderly people is of such value , and worthy of attention from practitioners in this field . |
| 21 | The woman suffered broken bones , and was robbed of just sixty pounds . |
| 22 | A taxi driver has been hijacked , beaten up and driven a hundred miles to London , where he was robbed of just twelve pounds . |
| 23 | But grades C , D and E , instead of becoming numbers seven , six and five are being absorbed into just two numbers , seven and six , thus blurring that distinctive C cut-off point . |
| 24 | Well this is the last place you 'd expect to come for summer sport but it 's here at Wembley on Monday that swindon town will bring their hopes and hearts … hello there … this is the stage where the fate … the future … the fortunes of Swindon Town will be decided in just one game against Leicester City … the prize a place in football 's premier league … so let's go down Wembley Way to size up the Big Match … |
| 25 | The disc is completed with Zeisl 's ‘ Arrowhead ’ Trio , written in just 23 days on the shores of Lake Arrowhead , in southern California , during his summer holidays in 1956 . |
| 26 | ‘ Tops ’ or soundboards are made from just two woods : Swiss pine for the very best instruments , Western red cedar for the others . |
| 27 | a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together . |
| 28 | White Hart Lane School in London used this approach when attendance had slumped to just 72 per cent . |
| 29 | He was then arrested and sentenced to just six months in prison . |
| 30 | Dr Tom Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four young women at the London premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |