Example sentences of "was just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Anne Collins , ten years younger than me , taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there . |
| 2 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 3 | There was just about room to lie crossways , but not front to back , and there were no windows . |
| 4 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 5 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 6 | Evelyn was just about the most self-deluded person she had ever met , a vociferous pseudo-feminist . |
| 7 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 8 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 9 | A rising shot by Sheringham , tipped over by Chamberlain after 36 minutes , was just about the last moment of anxiety for Luton . |
| 10 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
| 11 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 12 | There were three Sixes , and Trusty was just about the best Guider any Pack could wish for . |
| 13 | In Oxford , Karen 's insistence that our affair be conducted in public was just about feasible . |
| 14 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 15 | With its two twin towers of baroque grey stone , it was just about the only building in Moon Beach that was n't either white or pale-blue . |
| 16 | The head office of the Paradise Corporation , as Sir Charles knew perfectly well , was just about the most famous building in the city . |
| 17 | There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside . |
| 18 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 19 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 20 | The other was a man called Clint Brawner who in his own field of American racing was just about as big a winner as Ferrari or Chapman in FI : over fifty wins in eighteen years . |
| 21 | Wot , no fags ? — or beer or trains or anything else in short supply which , Vi supposed , was just about everything . |
| 22 | He reappeared at four o'clock , when she was just about dead from boredom . |
| 23 | It was just about as bad an accident as can happen to a nuclear-power station — an explosion and a fire that scattered fissile fuel all over the site and sent radioactive smoke and dust across thousands of square miles . |
| 24 | Except in the various branches of victualling the effective upper limit was just about £40 — indeed , only a tiny minority of assessments exceeded £20 . |
| 25 | ‘ It was just about the time yer was gettin' married . |
| 26 | In the South he was just about as deadly in the Minor County cricket as Sydney Barnes was in the North . |
| 27 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 28 | In about 1935 lie came to Euston Road School when it was just about starting and in no time at all he became a really competent painter in that way . |
| 29 | were almost erm okay just like that , I mean there were one or two very good ones , I think there was one that was just about like that with the odd word and when an editor receives something like you , you know , it 's usually going to be something he wants to change very slightly , erm that , those were the best ones , there were in general however you have n't yet got used to the idea of editing . |
| 30 | She had nowhere to aim for and she was just about destitute , and there was trouble following her as well . |