Example sentences of "[prep] just the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The April Saturday was mild , with just the faintest threat of showers . |
| 2 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 3 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 4 | The boy 's black eyes flicked up at his face impassively , with just the slightest suggestion of contempt . |
| 5 | She opened the street door with just the slightest qualm , remembering the night Foucard and Denis had stepped out of its darkness . |
| 6 | ‘ I couldna' , ’ Sadie looked away with just the barest hint of a micro-second 's hesitation . |
| 7 | Stradlin sings like a proper rock singer ; gravelly and unshaven and with just the tiniest hint that he would like some sex fairly soon . |
| 8 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |