Example sentences of "just about [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If any one of those companies loses two per cent of market share their profitability is just about completely destroyed .
2 I 'd say Korg have got the A4 just about right , and if not all the sounds are to my liking , then that 's really my bad luck .
3 There can be no disagreement about the fact that inequalities in all four areas are still substantial today , though there can be differences of opinion as to whether these are excessive , just about right , or even too small .
4 The food and drinks offered by the hosts were , I thought , just about right , and very reasonable in price , which encouraged us to use this service , despite the service station stops .
5 Italy 's Walter Cavalieri made it a close 116-114 and Germany 's Arthur Ellensohn carded a ‘ shut-out ’ 120-109 , while Puerto Rico 's Cesar Ramos had the fight just about right at 117-112 .
6 This path is a good example of just about exactly what cyclists want .
7 And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those
8 And I 've just about nearly round .
9 ‘ Legs become tired just about here ’ In knee-d of a rest ?
10 Truth is , the two cars are just about equally matched when it comes to acceleration in each gear .
11 This is steering that manages the seemingly impossible : to be bad just about everywhere .
12 St Kevin from Glendalough , and St Columcille-Columba from just about everywhere , were frequent guests .
13 Many did flee , taking their skills of war with them to Germany , France , Russia , and just about everywhere else .
14 Lamb is the Easter dish , just about everywhere , and — like geese at Christmas — it has something to do with when sheep fail to practise safe sex .
15 Connected with the Saudis but he 's sold arms just about everywhere , including Libya , Iran and Iraq .
16 Also it was n't exactly pleasant right here , with a November sharpness in the air that had arrived almost as a response to the Christmas lights and store displays that were just about everywhere now .
17 To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford …
18 A mild night just about everywhere , with temperatures no lower than nine celsius , forty eight fahrenheit , with those fairly light winds tending to turn more south easterly .
19 And although just about everywhere 's seen a good deal of sunshine , it has continued to feel pretty chilly .
20 ‘ We 've tried just about everywhere , ’ said Abi who works in marketing .
21 Just about everywhere you look you can see the influence the chemical industry has on our lives — clean drinking water , fresher and cheaper food , better clothing , improved medicines .
22 Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant .
23 It 's a fat one , and just about absolutely futile .
24 In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly .
25 Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom .
26 Well usually usually not always but just about always he 's at home he has n't gone anywhere so how far away is he zero as well so you get zero zero goes through the origin .
27 Not long ago , a piece in the New York Times Magazine pronounced him the Ali of old , just about terminally perky .
28 The holiday pendulum swung unambiguously towards entertainment rather than worthiness , the just about respectably raucous rather than the recreationally rational .
29 The linkage of a pressure-cooker view of sexuality ( which sees sex as a natural force constrained by societal norms ) with a cloud-of-dust theory of ideology ( which assumes that ideas are inevitably sifted downwards through society at large ) suggests that the ‘ sexual revolution ’ is in the end just about more sexual activity .
30 My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now .
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