Example sentences of "[n mass] in just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian and a friend bagged 90 cod in just two hours in one purple patch . |
| 2 | But Coun Carr stressed that the 1990–1 debt had been almost halved from £6.5m to £3.5m in just nine months . |
| 3 | Parishioners at St Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , have pledged £125,000 in just two weeks to pay for refurbishment which will take until October to complete . |
| 4 | The scourge of shepherds and farmers , the boobrie is greedy and will gobble up a whole flock of sheep in just one night . |
| 5 | The story today is rather less critical as Lotus reports significant gains across the Windows software scene , with , for example , Freelance Graphics increasing its market share from 35% to 59% in just one month . |
| 6 | They blew £700,000 in just 18 months . |
| 7 | In fact Racal Telecom has made £73million in just six months . |
| 8 | Top speed for this diesel is 96mph , and it spurts to 60mph in just 13.2 seconds . |
| 9 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 10 | How to lose £1.3bn in just three years |