Example sentences of "[prep] just the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 2 | We do n't have beef very often , but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you , by the time you 've cooked it |
| 3 | NOW , A PHOTO OF JUST THE TWO OF YOU , MR WYATT |
| 4 | Instead of just the two states 1 and 0 , the information technology of living cells uses four states , which we may conventionally represent as A , T , C and G. There is very little difference , in principle , between a two-state binary information technology like ours , and a four-state information technology like that of the living cell . |
| 5 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 6 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 7 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 8 | The man looked dangerous , and with just the two of them in this house , with no one around within screaming distance , she was n't taking any chances . |
| 9 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 10 | A criterion involving only millimetres and centimetres would be a little easier to achieve : 18 per cent obtained the correct order with just the one metre misplaced . |
| 11 | My playing greatly resembles my swimming — steady , sturdy and tremendously boring , with just the one stroke . |
| 12 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 13 | Tufnell now , with just the three men on the leg side , six on the off , up he comes , bowls this one , tossing it up and driven straight back by , goes straight up to Lawrence mid-off and there 's no run resulting from that . |
| 14 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 15 | You can zoom in and out of the preview , looking at thumbnails of your pages , or zooming in on just the one page . |
| 16 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 17 | The reduction to just the two land-cover categories , concerned with housing , loses only 3 per cent explanation when compared with the Shotgun model . |
| 18 | Indeed , fully a quarter of the country 's population is accounted for by just the six largest cities ( defined on a functional rather than administrative basis ) . |