Example sentences of "it [was/were] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 2 | With its two twin towers of baroque grey stone , it was just about the only building in Moon Beach that was n't either white or pale-blue . |
| 3 | It was just about as bad an accident as can happen to a nuclear-power station — an explosion and a fire that scattered fissile fuel all over the site and sent radioactive smoke and dust across thousands of square miles . |
| 4 | ‘ It was just about the time yer was gettin' married . |
| 5 | In about 1935 lie came to Euston Road School when it was just about starting and in no time at all he became a really competent painter in that way . |
| 6 | It was just about large enough … . |
| 7 | It was just about a hundred kilometres to Bad Schwarzendorn , with Paderborn — another town with a British garrison — shortly before it . |
| 8 | In fact , it was just about the very last thing I thought would ever happen . |
| 9 | Sex — it was just about sex . |
| 10 | It was just about a half a mile of water to cross . |
| 11 | And since the town is now totally overrun with lead swingers , how come that survey the other week claimed it was just about pollution free ? |
| 12 | In the end , England were short of the ten Norway scored against the Italian tax haven 's clerks , postmen , electricians and bus drivers , but it was just about enough . |
| 13 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |