Example sentences of "just about right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 2 | This year he seems to have got it just about right . |
| 3 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 4 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 5 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 6 | The Mad Axe 's very impressive acoustic sustain helps a lot on clean settings , and for rich , Knopfler-type sounds the pickups are voiced just about right . |
| 7 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This survey suggests that the Health Department has got it just about right . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just about right . |
| 11 | These are ideal for our purpose and by late summer should be just about right . |
| 12 | At minimum heat and in a heavy well-closed pot stood on the floor of the oven rather than on a shelf , the timing would be however just about right . |
| 13 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 14 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 15 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 16 | In the end I suppose a tie is just about right . |
| 17 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 18 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 19 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 20 | Charlton Curry , the second placed Liberal , said that Conservatism had ‘ departed once and for all ’ from Co Durham and ( with a nod to Mr Fallon and one or two of his predecessors ) was just about right . |