Example sentences of "[was/were] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 2 | ‘ They were just about the only times we set eyes on them , ’ she went on . |
| 3 | They were just about reaching exhaustion |
| 4 | John Major 's inestimable contribution was to allow people to vote Conservative and still feel they were just about decent human beings . |
| 5 | Well , two of these Barny offspring — they were lucky to be alive , for Mr and Mrs Barny were just about the most brutal parents any owl could be unfortunate enough to have — were paired with Paradise Park birds and remained behind . |
| 6 | In a tour of only six weeks , the AHA working party concluded that the short-stay admission facilities of the new DGH units , then just established at the Whittington , Royal Free and University College Hospitals , were just about sufficient for the treatment in the catchment areas for the future . |
| 7 | We cultivated maize and water melons and the crops were just about ripe when the army came one night without warning and destroyed everything . |
| 8 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Shutt 's goal was exactally what Leeds deserved as Strachan/Mc Allister were just about running midfield . |
| 12 | She arranged games and activities for the guests , claiming her two jobs were just about identical , except that her kindergarten children were more mature . |
| 13 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 14 | Dear Anne Collins , ten years younger than me , taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was just about room to lie crossways , but not front to back , and there were no windows . |
| 17 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 18 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 19 | Evelyn was just about the most self-deluded person she had ever met , a vociferous pseudo-feminist . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 22 | A rising shot by Sheringham , tipped over by Chamberlain after 36 minutes , was just about the last moment of anxiety for Luton . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 25 | There were three Sixes , and Trusty was just about the best Guider any Pack could wish for . |
| 26 | In Oxford , Karen 's insistence that our affair be conducted in public was just about feasible . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The head office of the Paradise Corporation , as Sir Charles knew perfectly well , was just about the most famous building in the city . |
| 30 | 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 . |