Example sentences of "[prep] just [num] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAST night 's meeting at Southwell was abandoned after just one race when the course became waterlogged following torrential rain . |
| 2 | The Navy 's costings are the most brittle : cancellation of just one warship or submarine punches a yawning hole in a year 's programme , and slowing down construction increases overheads and hence costs dramatically . |
| 3 | Instead , place the emphasis on the more straightforward reasons for leaving , after all few decisions are the result of just one factor but are usually the result of a combination of circumstances . |
| 4 | Crews answered an average of just 1.7 accident and emergency calls in Teesdale every week , although weeks would go by when there were no calls . |
| 5 | With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go . |
| 6 | Sometimes children try to print with just one thumb or finger , or two fingers or three fingers . |
| 7 | Higher fertility in class I and II than in IIIN is therefore due to the relative rarity of families with just one child or none . |
| 8 | Asked how this could be achieved with just one technician and with MacDonald ( putatively chief engineer ) spending his time at Norton , he replies : ‘ Ask our customers ’ . |
| 9 | I applied to correspondence courses for writing , I joined a music workshop , and at the same time I had to rush into a job , as I came over with just one bag and no money . ’ |
| 10 | We can begin with just one family and can learn from our mistakes . |
| 11 | with just one phrase as punters rush on by . |
| 12 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 13 | Joanna Castle is a busy woman — she and her husband run their 550 acre farm with just one son and one farm worker to help them . |
| 14 | ‘ If ye read Prescott ye 'll get the impression Pizarro crossed the Andes and destroyed the great empire of the Incas with just forty horse and sixty foot . |
| 15 | A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim . |
| 16 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 17 | Services currently available in all districts could be concentrated in just one hospital and patients might have to travel many miles for treatment , it was feared . |
| 18 | It struck Manville with no irony that Hayman had dismissed the two largest nations on the face of the earth to focus his attentions on just one man and an airplane . |
| 19 | While , modern techniques in printing are revolutionizing newspaper production , many different people will still have worked on just one story before you read it . |
| 20 | The complexity of tenancies and sub-tenancies relating to just one house or building in the urban context , together with a flavour of the experiences of working class tenants at the turn of the century , can be gained from the following extract . |
| 21 | Best of all for banana fingered reviewers , the DW1.2 's undo seems to go back forever , nd is not limited to just one step as is the case with so many other programs . |
| 22 | Banbury vet , Clifford Butler , said the dog suffered multiple injuries unlikely to have been caused by just one kick as Hughes claimed . |
| 23 | Her progress was n't being helped by over-eager spectators , but after 28,000 miles Nuclear Electric crossed the line for overall victory , by just one hour and 10 minutes . |
| 24 | Six weeks Nuclear Electric , with its amateur crew , won the race by just one hour and ten minutes after racing 28,000 miles around the world , against nine other yachts . |
| 25 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 26 | By the year 2000 , it would like to see total wind power generated in the UK equivalent to the power given off by just one coal or gas-fired power station . |