Example sentences of "[is] just about [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any one of those companies loses two per cent of market share their profitability is just about completely destroyed . |
| 2 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 3 | In theory the dazzle explanation makes sense , because the zebra patterning is just about as vivid as it can be , when seen at close quarters , but once again the facts do not support this idea in practice . |
| 4 | As an operation , infibulation is just about as unpleasant in its consequences as it sounds . |
| 5 | The stainless alloy we use is a ‘ 430 ’ type , which is just about as magnetic a stainless as you can find . |
| 6 | ‘ His expression is just about as dreary as the weather . ’ |
| 7 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 8 | There 's a map and the Grand is just about there . |
| 9 | For any event involving more than two hundred people , a year 's planning is just about enough ; for any event involving fewer people six months is the absolute minimum . |
| 10 | The majority of c.c.d.s have around 500 stages , which is just about enough to give some sort of reverberation effect . |
| 11 | The income from the shipping company and rents is just about enough to keep the overdraft from going above its limit . |
| 12 | erm Anyway , it 's just about there , and then , almost next door , presumably in competition with each other is the other inn , the Unicorn Inn , erm so that was it just on the South Side of Blue Boar Lane . |
| 13 | Our cycle ride 's just about long enough . |
| 14 | Well that 's just about as bad |