Example sentences of "just about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cultivated maize and water melons and the crops were just about ripe when the army came one night without warning and destroyed everything . |
| 2 | The slow down in the rate of growth in the Eurocurrency market-growth that has been just about static since the early 1980's — can perhaps be attributed to the fact that domestic markets have become increasingly deregulated , while the foreign currency activities of domestic banks have become increasingly regulated by domestic central banks . |
| 3 | John Major 's inestimable contribution was to allow people to vote Conservative and still feel they were just about decent human beings . |
| 4 | ‘ Not Dynasty -type scripts , just about normal working class families and things that have happened to me ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That sounds just about normal . |
| 6 | And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office . |
| 7 | Yeah but he 's just about retiring age anyway is n't he . |
| 8 | Fortunately his calculations were accurate and the chemistry department at Manchester is still just about intact . |
| 9 | The teaching of communications demands that students approach the subject in a way that entails thinking , not just about individual ideas or issues , but about the relationship between those ideas and also the social location of those ideas . |
| 10 | Now once again we know about this because Edward Heath was given another job , just about nine months later , the king had decided he would summon a parliament in Oxford erm and in January '44 it was due to meet , but where were the members who were going to come into Oxford to stay . |
| 11 | ‘ Professionalism is n't just about legal skills , it 's also about all the other aspects such as handling clients , selling , and dealing with people , ’ said Neill Mulvie , chief executive of Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland . |
| 12 | You 've got forty minutes , that 's about what you 've got , it 's just about thirty minutes , okay ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been on telly just about non-stop for 12 months , but I 've got a few ideas I have n't had time to work on . ’ |
| 14 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 15 | The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand . |
| 16 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 17 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 18 | it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head . |
| 19 | Adams added : ‘ I am just about stony broke . ’ |
| 20 | Mathematics is not just about developing facility for number : it is essentially a subject which has links with all other curriculum areas and should never be taught in isolation . |
| 21 | ‘ I think that is just about that . ’ |
| 22 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 23 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 24 | When my grandfather died in er just about that year . |
| 25 | Their work did not receive much attention , however , because at just about that time most people abandoned the original string theory of the strong force in favor of the theory based on quarks and gluons , which seemed to fit much better with observations . |
| 26 | Anyway perhaps if if I come back to you after next Tuesday afternoon when I 've got a meeting to talk just about that subject with the deputy and see what options are going to come forward . |
| 27 | What er more staff would mean is that more visits can be made to more HMO 's to put more of the problems right ; it 's , it 's just about that simple . |
| 28 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 29 | A nice green colour just about four inches long . |
| 30 | Just about four fields . |