Example sentences of "[coord] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ventral arm plates are pentagonal with a convex distal edge and on obtuse proximal angle , separated or only just contiguous ; in some specimens the plate boundaries are obscured by skin but this is not a constant feature . |
| 2 | The adoral shields are short , rectangular in shape , they do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 3 | O. valenciennesi rufescens differs from O. valenciennesi Lyman ( Challenger Stn 192 off Kei Is 236 m ) in the following respects : the disk spinelets are not as rugose as those of O. valenciennesi and the adoral shields do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate , those of O. valenciennesi are more wing-like and extend to the genital slits . |
| 4 | The adoral shields are long wing-like and flared distally separating or only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 5 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 6 | And only just in time . |
| 7 | The result in February 1974 was a Labour manifesto that promised ‘ a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families ’ — and only just stopped short of promising to nationalise the country 's leading 25 companies . |
| 8 | Once , to his own dismay , he almost hit the child out of frustration , and only just curbed himself in time . |
| 9 | Further inland , and only just visible from the southern window was the Old Rectory , set like a Victorian dolls ' house in its large , overgrown garden which , at this distance , looked as neatly green and formal as a municipal park . |
| 10 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 11 | He was arrested , charged with possession of cocaine and only just missed serving a jail sentence when the court ordered him to attend a drugs rehabilitation centre . |
| 12 | Just over a quarter of them ( 26 per cent ) had left their last jobs for this reason , and only just over one third ( 35 per cent ) because of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 13 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 14 | I was weak and exhausted , and only just beginning to realize what had happened . |
| 15 | The act of love did happen — and only once , and only just — immediately before I took up my new post at Schloss Hartheim , near Linz , in the province of Austria . |
| 16 | Rory leapt back , staggered on legs that had gone half to sleep , and only just scrambled into the broom cupboard and got the door shut before the bedroom door opened . |
| 17 | In this case , Ecgfrith would have succeeded his father almost immediately in early 671 and only just begun his fifteenth year as king when he was slain . |
| 18 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 19 | She tried very , very hard not to say ‘ concoined ’ and only just missed . |
| 20 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 21 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 22 | Melody released him reluctantly — and only just in time . |
| 23 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 24 | She thought she heard an owl cry , and the falling shape , black now and only just visible , seemed to sweep suddenly to the left , soaring , then falling , turning a round and white face to glance at her as it vanished into the gloom . |
| 25 | outdoors and only just woken . |
| 26 | After-tax earnings per share fell 30 per cent to 21.87p and only just cover a dividend total held at 20p by a final of 13.4p , but the shares firmed 3p to 458p by the close . |
| 27 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 28 | The new 325i 's cabin is less adventurous than its exterior , but only just . |
| 29 | ‘ Remember , Erika , ’ she said , ‘ you are on the ladder , but only just . |
| 30 | He had provided the foundations for the strategic and tactical mobility that enabled the small regular Army to meet its commitments in the mid-1960s — but only just . |