Sentence examples for were only just enough from inspiring English sources

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PC Fraser said the car's handbrake was in full working order, but the "three clicks" the lever had been set at were only just enough to stop it from rolling down the driveway on most occasions.

But in the case of the stramenopiles (e.g., diatoms and oomycetes), there were only just enough sequences from different species to create an ancestor (5 sequences), and although there were five alveolate sequences they came from just two ciliate species: Paramecium tetraurelia (3 sequences) and Oxytricha trifallax (2 sequences).

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"It is only just enough".

The problem is, there's only just enough story to go round.

Florence may have been a one-joke wonder, and, to be honest, there is only just enough of her to fill a movie.

In contrast, the score for Jair Bolsonaro, the new president of Brazil, was only just enough to classify his speeches as somewhat populist.

There is only just enough here to fill a film; in the words of one blistering letter sent home from Brazil, "Everyone's feeling fine and managing to find things to do".

If the whole country moved uniformly in line with the overall council results, the Conservative lead of 38% to Labour's 29% might be only just enough to put them ahead in Commons seats, so great is the current anti-Tory bias in the electoral system.

The bad news is that you're not likely to get another long-term job ever and that basic income will probably be only just enough to scrape by on.

His best moments, for me, are only just enough considering how much further they could go in image and sound.

His salary was only just enough to live on, and he supplemented it by playing in a popular orchestra called the "White Viennese Band", conducted by Stanislas Wurm.

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