Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] just [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court has ordered that an estranged father of two should pay just five pence a year towards his children 's welfare . |
| 2 | Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone . |
| 3 | Then I 'll have just three sets . |
| 4 | A small settlement might have just one tomb : Knossos was ringed by such tombs . |
| 5 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
| 6 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
| 7 | ‘ If you could see just one show at the ( Edinburgh ) Festival , it would have to be this one ’ . |
| 8 | You could use just two canes if you prefer . |
| 9 | For example you could have just one Troll in your army and it will count as a unit on its own . |
| 10 | Well you could have just one aspirin . |
| 11 | This suggested that they were endothermic , something also pointed out by Robert Bakker , who showed that growth from a ceratopsian egg to a one-ton creature could take just five years . |
| 12 | Certainly , judged from a purely clinical standpoint the Jubilate reveals all of the features of psychotic thought disorder , of which , chosen at random from its 1739 lines , we may cite just one example ( B590 — 4 ) : |
| 13 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | Current estimations reveal that the Admiral 's Cup may attract just eight teams , from Britain , America , Australia , Japan , Germany , France , Denmark and Italy . |
| 15 | If the Frau would wait just one moment then . ’ |
| 16 | I shall give just two examples . |
| 17 | I shall give just one example here . |
| 18 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |
| 19 | It is inconceivable that a developer would use just 103 calls in any case , says Price , warning that ‘ Posix does n't mean portability . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . |
| 21 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . ’ |
| 22 | Whereas before the majority of pet dog owners would have just one dog , more and more people now decide to get a second dog — often as a playmate for their first dog . |
| 23 | The line from Paddington station could open in late 1997 and airlines such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic would operate at least some of the trains that would take just 16 minutes . |
| 24 | Jane 's happiness would take just one death ; one death on a field of slaughter , one more corpse among the battalions of the dead . |
| 25 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 26 | Each group would interview just one person . |
| 27 | They range from option CI , which would close just 130 kilometres of track , to option B , which leaves 3600 km and option A , which pares away all but 2600 km of the network . |
| 28 | I would say just two things ; the one on the rates scheme , we certainly as a health committee distribute fifteen thousand pounds a year and treat these as important pledge by work . |
| 29 | Most often , a particular account team will include just one media specialist , whose job is , first , to work with the rest of the account group , especially the creative team , to decide what type of media should be used — press , TV ; colour or black and white ; large or small spaces ; etc . |
| 30 | But to get over the main ideas , we will consider just two plates , and the margins between them : the East Pacific Plate and the South American-Atlantic Plate . |