Example sentences of "[was/were] just [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 2 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 3 | It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 . |
| 4 | They were just over two inches each in size . |
| 5 | We have seen that there were just over 100 there in 1875 . |
| 6 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 7 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 8 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 9 | ‘ At the Highbury semi-final there were just over 300 officers on duty . |
| 10 | They were just physically impossible to move in and out of the studios . |
| 11 | The army chief of staff warned that naval and air action alone would not achieve Radford 's objectives , while the troops which were needed to fight a land war were just not available . |
| 12 | But , while Border expressed his delight with the form of strike bowler McDermott , Gooch admitted : ‘ We were just not capable of splitting Border and Mark Waugh when we needed to . |
| 13 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 14 | Most MPs and Minister were just not interested . |
| 15 | They were just slightly different types of work which were being done . |
| 16 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 17 | ‘ They were just so close . |
| 18 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 19 | ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’ |
| 21 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 22 | they were just so amazed ! |
| 23 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ said Betty , ‘ they were just perfectly nice , ordinary people . ’ |
| 25 | Behind the wall , beeches and chestnuts were just faintly jubilant in their near escapes from the weights of summer . |
| 26 | I do n't think living together first would have changed the outcome — we were just too young and unsuited . ’ |
| 27 | Now there were just too many people turning up . |
| 28 | There were just too many unanswered questions now , too many battles to be fought and riddles to be solved . |
| 29 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 30 | His eyes were just too probing , too all-seeing . |