Example sentences of "to just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat gently to just simmering . |
| 2 | So , even though the waiting lists in the North continue to decline from January 's 462 people waiting more than two years for treatment to just 207 in February they may not be an accurate reflection of the numbers waiting to see a consultant . |
| 3 | Hardman and Cooper ( 1980 ) , for example , report that the swan herd on the River Avon at Strafford declined from a population of eighty in 1963 to just four in 1978 , much of which is attributed to lead ingestion . |
| 4 | But by the time the scheme goes into year-round service , in 1985 , computers will cut the time-lag down to just four hours . |
| 5 | From a peak of 400 mines around 1850 , the number has fallen to just four . |
| 6 | A threshold can hold numbers down : Germany 's fierce 5% one has usually kept the Bundestag to just four parties , rarely five . |
| 7 | In 1990 — also his first year on the Tour — Nicklaus restricted himself to just four tournaments and won two of them , collecting $340,000 in total . |
| 8 | Seizinger remained first overall but with her advantage over Austrian Anita Wachter trimmed to just four points with one race left . |
| 9 | Earlier this year , I heard the whole of the debate about health care reduced by the media to just four words . |
| 10 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 11 | Akai has been reducing the test time , but Mitsubishi 's TIP system drops it to just 1.5 seconds by taking advantage of the fact that the video head drum has four heads . |
| 12 | The Department of Health figures show that nationally , two-year lists have been slashed from 51,224 patients at the end of March , 1991 to just 1,640 patients at the end of last month . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 14 | Moreover , there are laws of constitutional significance , such as the various acts regulating the franchise and granting the vote , and the Parliament Act , 1949 which limits the capacity of the House of Lords to delay bills passed by the Commons to just 1 year . |
| 15 | Andrews cost Saints £200,000 when he joined from Celtic three years ago but has been restricted to just five appearances as understudy to Tim Flowers and now wants to return to his native Midlands . |
| 16 | Lord Justice Kelly faced a storm of controversy and provoked sustained public outcry last June when he sentenced the then 23-year-old Lisburn woman to just five years for manslaughter . |
| 17 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 18 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 19 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 20 | The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed official " threatened species " designation under the 1973 Endangered Species Act for the spectacled eider duck , whose population has declined by 94 per cent since 1971 , from over 50,000 pairs to just 3,000 pairs . |
| 21 | Around 50,000 pairs of tawny owls remain in Britain , compared to just 5,000 barn owls . |
| 22 | But operating profits improved in the second half and the company can take some credit for the reduction in gearing to just 5 p.c . |
| 23 | Already there are signs of a strong resurgence of interest in North America and 1993 production of platinum watches in Switzerland is anticipated to show a 10 fold increase compared to just 5 years ago . |
| 24 | And this season , injury has restricted him to just 10 appearances . |
| 25 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 26 | It left Mrs Adams to look after four children aged from 9 years to just 10 months . |
| 27 | But back trouble has restricted him to just eight games this season . |
| 28 | Restricting property assessments to just eight bands with a top level of , in effect , £320,000 is blatantly in favour of those privileged , wealthy occupiers whose homes have a value of anything between £650,000 to £20 million — and that includes many staunch Tory supporters . |
| 29 | Ninety per cent of the seeds in their faeces belonged to just eight species of tree and one liane , the rest to 15 other liane species . |
| 30 | In the Philippines 34.6 million acres of rainforest was reduced to just 5.4 million acres by logging programmes during the corrupt Marcos regime . |