Example sentences of "[is] just about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’
2 These things all took time but now I must say that , for me , it is just about perfect .
3 It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise .
4 A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right .
5 In the end I suppose a tie is just about right .
6 ‘ I think that is just about that . ’
7 If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km .
8 The thoroughbred horse breeding industry , it seems , is just about knackered .
9 The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine .
10 The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand .
11 It is just about ready to roll , we 've only get a few minor drafting amendments to complete . ’
12 There is just about enough annalistic evidence to suggest that Charles operated this system at least in the second half of his reign .
13 The recording , made in the Faculty of Music at Cambridge University , is rich , warm and clear : in other words it is just about ideal .
14 Here the answer is just about any error the superior courts wish .
15 At 25 she is just about half his age , but she 's happy to go along with his old-fashioned — some would say chauvinistic — belief that a wife 's place is in the kitchen .
16 It 's a comfortable car to drive , assisted by power steering , and while leg-room in the back is just about adequate the low roof can prove irritating for tall rear seat passengers .
17 it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head .
18 You 've got forty minutes , that 's about what you 've got , it 's just about thirty minutes , okay ?
19 Yeah but he 's just about retiring age anyway is n't he .
20 ‘ That 's just about right .
21 But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using .
22 Okay , it 's just about five past so we can probably start with a clear conscience .
23 What er more staff would mean is that more visits can be made to more HMO 's to put more of the problems right ; it 's , it 's just about that simple .
24 I 'm afraid that 's just about all I can do . ’
25 I did n't have to ask Posi for a synopsis because that 's just about all there was .
26 ‘ It 's just about ready , ’ the production manager said .
27 Mr Wickham 's just about ready to haul someone in . ’
28 It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office .
29 There 's four in the sitting room , there 's one well advanced that 's doi doing quite well , there 's one upstairs that 's just about ready for er , repotting , and there are two more that have sprouts on .
30 It 's alright , it 's just about three different conversations going on here .
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