Example sentences of "[verb] just under [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 2 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 3 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 4 | Lewis now has just under 21,000 people ( almost 6,000 of them in the town of Stornoway ) , and Harris nearly 3,000 . |
| 5 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 6 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |
| 7 | Until the recent amnesty it housed just under 3,000 inmates at 80 per cent capacity ; some 2,000 of these were former members of the National Guard . |
| 8 | The eventual winner — Mr Wizard , his three leaps totalled just under six metres . |
| 9 | An example of one of the unstressed phonemic utterances which produced just under 16,000 alternative word-strings is given below . |
| 10 | Last year the 8,500 workers in body and assembly produced just under 200,000 cars . |
| 11 | During the 80s most of our terminals and computers could transmit just under 10,000 bits of information per second . |
| 12 | Tesco make just under seven per cent . |
| 13 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 15 | The normal WPC Power Benchmarks revealed nothing special ; it scored just under 12,000 , unremarkable for a 486/50 . |
| 16 | That costs just under six hundred pounds . |
| 17 | John Carty , Scottish officer for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said last night that it was a case of wait and see for the plant , which employs just under 500 staff after the 67 recently announced redundancies . |
| 18 | Today it employs just under 30 people , two-thirds of them local , in high-technology surroundings producing a range of chemical derivatives from local fish oils and imported plants such as primrose and borage . |
| 19 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 20 | Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour . |
| 21 | I mean B squared 's nineteen squares you know just under four hundred is n't it ? |
| 22 | The Horn of Africa , the subject of the third famine warning in four years , was again worst hit and needed just under two-thirds of total emergency aid . |
| 23 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
| 24 | With no previous running experience , Pamela has spent just under two years training and preparing for the race . |
| 25 | TVMM will have just under 8 per cent and Charles Romaine , the sales director of HTV , said TVMM would be willing to take on any other groups to bring that total closer to 25 per cent . |
| 26 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 27 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 28 | Leopold died just under two months later , alone , on 28 May . |
| 29 | The youngster is two feet 10ins tall and weighs just under two stones . |
| 30 | The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time , down fourteen stone from his previous weight . |