Example sentences of "by just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city is growing at the rate of 6,000 people a month , whilst 90% of the state 's water supplies are currently used by just 6,000 farmers . |
| 2 | The flying Scotsman had earlier missed out in the Junior TT by just 7.2 seconds in a superb contest . |
| 3 | Colin McRae and the prodrive team from Banbury … in the New Zealand rally they won by just 27 seconds … its the first British win in the championship since 1976 … and the first ever abroad … |
| 4 | Colin McRae and the prodrive team from Banbury … in the New Zealand rally they won by just 27 seconds … its the first British win in the championship since 1976 … and the first ever abroad … |
| 5 | The President 's Shield final was fought out between two of the league 's strongest sides , with Treloar finally beating Hammer by just four points . |
| 6 | The new Convertagear fluorescent lighting control units from Interpret can each accommodate two different tube sizes 1″ and 1½″ Nine sizes of tube are taken care of by just four models of Convertagear . |
| 7 | Just as all the genetic information that can be conceived of is coded for by just four molecules , and all the proteins that exist are built up from just twenty amino acids , so efficient biochemical systems once established tend to be preserved . |
| 8 | Last year , at a cost of C$1.4m ( $1.9m ) , the commission investigated about 1,800 complaints , four-fifths of which were made by just four zealous citoyens . |
| 9 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 10 | Blanche looked a little ragged at the edges , her sergeant noted indulgently , but was otherwise unmarked by just four hours ' sleep the night before . |
| 11 | More than fifty thousand pounds is being spent on a public inquiry to decide if a toll bridge can raise its charge by just FOUR PENCE . |
| 12 | After increasing by 9 per cent in 1989 , manufacturing investment is expected to rise by just 1 per cent next year as firms lower their growth expectations in the light of high interest rates and muted consumer demand , according to the CSO 's investment intentions survey . |
| 13 | For example , the Maldives in the Indian Ocean consist of 1196 atolls inhabited by 177,000 people , and they would virtually disappear if sea level rose by just 1 metre ( Boyle and Ardill , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | 21 : Labour fails by just 13 votes to defeat the Government in a Commons debate . |
| 15 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 16 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 17 | It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 . |
| 18 | It has been a rhetorical device , then — necessary because ( my literary friends tell me ) science proceeds by just such rhetoric — but rhetorical nonetheless . |
| 19 | The thought , accompanied by just such an image , jumped into Lisa 's head before she could stop it . |
| 20 | All along Park Lane they backed on to Hyde Park , and the whole space between the Ritz Hotel and Berkeley Square was taken up by just two very grand ones . |
| 21 | In the lone match division one , Bohunt ‘ A ’ dropped only one game against Witley when Tony Nash and Josie Frost got home by just two points . |
| 22 | Kate dug them in the meadow grass around the trees in the orchard ( which has only one fruiting tree ) , accompanied now by just two huge sentimental wolfhounds , Petra and Titan , which ‘ trundle about ’ following wherever she goes . |
| 23 | Sainz , who had led Kankkunen by just two points in the World Championship , finished the season with 144 points — 10 ahead of the Finn and a further 13 in front of unlucky Frenchman , Didier Auriol . |
| 24 | The existence of other endothelin receptors also seems to be increasingly likely ; indeed , it may well be difficult to imagine that the actions of three different peptides are mediated by just two receptors . |
| 25 | Californian Wayne Rainey and Michael Doohan , separated by just two points in the title race , start side by side on the front row . |
| 26 | Wayne Rainey and Michael Doohan , separated by just two points in the title race , start side by side on the front row . |
| 27 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 28 | The tiny station at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire is run by just two people , and both are dedicated to keeping the long suffering rail traveller happy . |
| 29 | ‘ We have had a few of our delivery men have missed the time by just two or three minutes but as people get used to it things should improve , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 30 | The economic spokesman , Alex Neil , the industry spokesman , Roger Mullin , and the transport spokesman , Kenny MacAskill , resigned after the party leadership won a critical vote of confidence by just two votes — 13 votes to 11 with two members abstaining — over the controversial decision of the three SNP MPs to vote with the Government on the Maastricht Bill last week . |