Example sentences of "[noun sg] just short " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 2 | Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river . |
| 3 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 4 | Farther north , Fifth Army 's forces had advanced astride the Ypres-Roulers railway to a point just short of Zonnebeke . |
| 5 | This was the railway which crossed over the Corporation tramway just short of the Selby Road boundary . |
| 6 | TV commentators often assert confidently that a try has been awarded after a tackle just short of the line because the player 's ‘ momentum ’ took him over . |
| 7 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 8 | The car was still with us as I slid into the kerb just short of the hotel entrance . |
| 9 | Absorbed in his own thoughts , he paid no attention to the purple saloon car parked at the roadside just short of number thirty-seven until , as he made his way past it , the driver 's door was pushed abruptly open to block his path . |