Example sentences of "just under [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year the Bouches-du-Rh∘one departement , which includes the Mediterranean port , counted 340 dead and just under 20,000 injured in road accidents . |
| 2 | Half of the theses were cited in the Science Citation Index , with just under thirty per cent of these being self-citations . |
| 3 | We had 15 per cent interest rates , inflation just under 11 per cent . |
| 4 | Actually , it was just under 11 months ago , when Denmark defeated Billy Bingham 's side 1-0 . |
| 5 | In some small towns , such as Sudbury or Oakham , just under one-fifth of the workforce was engaged in textiles and in victualling as well . |
| 6 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 7 | The office space runs to just under 2,200 sq ft while the whole site comprises half an acre and is fenced off . |
| 8 | Just under 2/3 of our domestic waste is made up of paper and cardboard . |
| 9 | Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’ |
| 10 | Like Ringmer , the population of the village has rapidly expanded in recent years from just under 2,000 in 1971 to over 3,000 in 1981 . |
| 11 | In the last fifteen years , the number of complaints about noise levels in Oxford , has risen from 200 to just under 2,000 . |
| 12 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 13 | To conclude with figures : 2001 took $25.5 million in NA rentals ( 130 per cent over its estimated negative cost ) and was a worldwide hit ; 2010 took $20.1 million , just under three-quarters of its negative cost . |
| 14 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 15 | Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent . |
| 16 | Estimates suggest that if divorce rates prevailing in the 1980s continue , then just under 4 in 10 ( 37% ) marriages contracted in the mid 1980s are likely to end in divorce ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Just under 4 in 10 women aged 65 or over are married and one half are widowed . |
| 18 | The company 's 100 mm disc ( just under 4 inches ) is destined for use with new personal computers . |
| 19 | The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios . |
| 20 | For example , the number of indictable offenders found guilty in all courts increased from just under 40,000 in 1939 to 340,000 in 1999 . |
| 21 | Just under one-third of part-time farmers had some formal training , with North Yorkshire providing the largest proportion . |
| 22 | Just under one-third of abusers were the natural father , while a further one-third had adopted the role of father , either by law or by common consent . |
| 23 | The man altered course impatiently to deal with the interruption ; just under six foot , he looked smaller because of the width of the powerful sloping shoulders which even good tailoring could do little to minimize . |
| 24 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 25 | The total estate came to just under six hundred pounds . |
| 26 | As she was just under six foot tall and very slim , wore her dark hair closely cropped , and her face though free of make-up was not unattractive , the result was certainly striking . |
| 27 | Just under six pounds , she said . |
| 28 | That costs just under six hundred pounds . |
| 29 | Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers . |
| 30 | The eventual winner — Mr Wizard , his three leaps totalled just under six metres . |