Example sentences of "[noun] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 2 | Providing that the standard blade is set correctly , that is , the saw teeth only just penetrate the wood being cut , we found that the blade produced just as good results when cross-cutting . |
| 3 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 4 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 5 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 6 | Executive chairman of a car manufacturer would not be one 's first stab at Gauntlett 's profession : ruddy in a way that Englishmen are n't any more , a pinstripe only just this side of loud , silk handkerchief , he looks hand-stitched , coach-built , bespoke . |
| 7 | Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast . |
| 8 | Unusually for Italy , Verri owed nothing to political connections for his appointment from the private sector only just over a year ago . |
| 9 | There was a keen nip in the air , winter only just round the corner Maggie thought . |
| 10 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 11 | Make the casing only just large enough for the rods , so that they fit tightly . |
| 12 | In a recent letter to Dr Jeffrey , the association 's chairman , Electricity Association chief executive Roger Farrance , said ‘ The EEIBA only just manages to balance its books and its case load is increasing all the time . |
| 13 | It has long been known that phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency exhibits a wide and continuous range of clinical and biochemical severity , varying from a symptomless disorder with phenylalanine accumulation only just greater than in obligate heterozygotes to a severely handicapping condition with plasma phenylalanine concentrations over 20 times normal . |
| 14 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 15 | Lancaster only just tolerated Douglas 's interference , partly for old time 's sake and partly because Lancaster admired Kirk for daring to slight Hollywood 's conservatives by openly using blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus . |
| 16 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 17 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 18 | Seems a bit queer , with the body only just being found , an ’ all that . |
| 19 | Angela reached the roped-in starting-square only just in time . |
| 20 | In 1979 , for example , of the 80,000 full-time teachers employed in further education only just over 36,000 , or about 45 per cent , were trained in that they had successfully completed a course of professional training approved by the DES . |
| 21 | A modest price increase accompanied the launching of the ground war , but took the price only just above $20 before a slight fall at end February to approximately $18 . |
| 22 | Despite that , the Elliot 's Downfall icicle only just touched the ground , so the ice was much thinner than in 1986 . |
| 23 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 24 | I said to Joe only just last night we was chatting about it |
| 25 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 26 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 27 | Oh God only just ! |
| 28 | Phoebe jerked away and the radiologist only just managed to suppress her irritation . |
| 29 | Though in one sense only just begun . |
| 30 | WC apps : 4 The Americans only just managed to take advantage of the enforced absence of Mexico — banned after fielding over-age players in a World Youth Cup — by winning their decisive qualifier in Trinidad by the odd goal . |