Example sentences of "of just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge difference in size between the drum and oval window means that sounds , particularly low frequencies , are amplified 100 times , instead of just eighteen times as in the human ear . |
| 2 | In fact , in a 10 kg infant a dose of only 0.8 mg fluoride could theoretically cause a peak of 0.2 ppm in the blood ionic fluoride ; and a dose of just 0–4 mg fluoride , a peak of 0.1 ppm . |
| 3 | If just one per cent switch from Tory to Labour , Conal Gregory with the country 's slimmest Tory majority of just 147 in York will be looking for a new job . |
| 4 | If , after reading the advice in Chapter 9 , you decide to keep to a very strict calorie intake of just 850 to 1,000 calories daily , you will find it very difficult to achieve the upper levels of the fibre recommendation and might even find it difficult to consume 35 grams of fibre daily . |
| 5 | Nuclear Electric had a lead of just 7 hours , then Group Four went out in front , and was still there on her own in the Channel on Saturday . |
| 6 | With a government majority of just seventeen , another of Gloucestershire 's MPs says such a rebellion would be divisive . |
| 7 | Former engineering group Sunleigh held at 8p as the company announced a take-up level of just 11½ p.c. for its recent open offer . |
| 8 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 9 | For the remaining hour Barcelona , encouraged by the news from Kiev where Dynamo beat Sparta Prague 1–0 before a crowd of just 3,000 , played a speculative game vastly at odds with their attacking image , to the extent where veteran defender Alexanko was sent on to replace striker Laudrup in a side defending with eight players in the area . |
| 10 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for the Frenchman , Arnold Boetsch , the Australians , Jason Stoltenberg and Pat Cash and the Americans Malivai Washington and David Wheaton , Edberg is not a cricketer and amply demonstrated his tennis talents by winning his first Stella title for the loss of just one set . |
| 12 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 13 | Then , outside , in an indication of just one of the unusual qualities of the growing East German opposition , they chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and sang the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 14 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 15 | In 12 months a staggering total of 5 million under fives will have perished , victims of just one cause : diarrhoeal diseases spread by dirty water . |
| 16 | With Mollie Salisbury 's help , Charles designed his entire garden , and furthermore , with the assistance of just one gardener , he dug it , manured it and planted it too . |
| 17 | With the exception of just one — her teacher , Miss Honey . |
| 18 | The reasons for Wales 's clarity of thinking are not difficult to see : ministers more interested in practical achievement than ideology ; an NHS management team together now for five years ; and , above all , a district structure and population the size of just one of England 's 14 regions . |
| 19 | The Navy 's costings are the most brittle : cancellation of just one warship or submarine punches a yawning hole in a year 's programme , and slowing down construction increases overheads and hence costs dramatically . |
| 20 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 21 | Gooch and Curtis made a solid start and the deficit was passed for the loss of just one wicket . |
| 22 | ‘ Who ever heard of just one bottle of Champagne ? ’ |
| 23 | If I 'm a teacher I would rather teach ‘ See Jane run … … ’ to a million people on the road to thinking and articulating themselves , instead of just one individual . |
| 24 | Changing the order or magnitude of just one term in a series is a violation of expectation . |
| 25 | Simply measuring height can mean a communication problem between children and their parents , but as a university lecturer I face a much greater difficulty because the use of just one inadvertent ‘ old ’ term can easily lose a class of students . |
| 26 | Ring contraction also occurs in the reaction of with with the loss , in this case , of just one SN unit . |
| 27 | As a result , at the end of just one year Louis-Napoleon moved from 50th to 24th place in a class of 94 . |
| 28 | When one Landau level is full , the addition of just one more electron puts the Fermi energy EF , at the bottom of the next level , and the decrease of the Hall voltage should continue with imperceptible disturbance . |
| 29 | Are we saying that route maps can be encoded into the DNA of just one germ cell ? |
| 30 | If time were as a looped conveyor belt , endlessly revolving , with past , present and future all existing simultaneously , our constrained human view would be of just one thin sliver across this belt . |