Example sentences of "just about " in BNC.
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| 31 | You can just about excuse Porsche for not altering the external shape , but forgiveness is impossible when it concerns the interior . |
| 32 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 33 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 34 | Media analysis often arouses controversy , not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications . |
| 35 | Well , just about everything is different . |
| 36 | Ah , you probably know more about this than just about anybody outside government . |
| 37 | Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London . |
| 38 | Three chords and you could play just about anything on the album . |
| 39 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 40 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 41 | For historians the drawback is that the gaps appear at just about every point where there is something they would like to know . |
| 42 | ‘ I do n't mean just about me ; I mean you really do n't care whether you live or die . |
| 43 | Truth is , the two cars are just about equally matched when it comes to acceleration in each gear . |
| 44 | Just about everybody drove the BRM at some stage , even Fangio . |
| 45 | Neither pleasingly accelerative nor particularly sporting , it just about passes as a sporting saloon . |
| 46 | This is steering that manages the seemingly impossible : to be bad just about everywhere . |
| 47 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 48 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 49 | ‘ I reckon just about the whole population of Kingsmarkham knew Charlie Hatton would be taking the field path home that night . ’ |
| 50 | I parted from my mother just about on speaking terms . |
| 51 | She took the material off of the wall , and all her shoes and make up and just about everything cept the big stuff . |
| 52 | In reading it the cruelty is just about balanced by the extreme beauty of the lyrics and much of the dialogue , so that the total effect , tho ’ sinister , like a too bright dream which is sure to turn into nightmare before the end , yet is bearable . |
| 53 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 54 | We can just about afford it from immediate funds , and I trust I have your support in this work . |
| 55 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 56 | June is for Giorgio , Jonathon , a couple of jolly clever patterns — and just about anything else you care to mention . |
| 57 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 58 | Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tide ebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt . |
| 59 | Anyone with a home proving difficult to sell — which means just about everyone — will be resigned by now to a peeling , semi-permanent board mated to the gatepost . |
| 60 | Westminster environmental protection officer Sid Geake says the council has just about cracked the problem of multiple signs , but is now going even further to curb the blight . |