Example sentences of "just under half " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could give the British public just under half the 2,183 million shares on offer . |
| 2 | This could give the British public just under half the 2,183 million shares on offer . |
| 3 | Instead , a meeting of just under half the 400-strong group , an alliance of reform-minded parliamentarians , adopted a compromise resolution allowing each of its members to take independent political action . |
| 4 | He has already won 1,267 — just under half of those so far contested . |
| 5 | They contain just under half the land area of Scotland but only 6% of its population , with a density of about 14 per km 2 . |
| 6 | Just under half the arable area was grazed and when added to the permanent grass area this made a total of 5,700 ha . |
| 7 | Part-time farmers occupied just under half the 250,000 holdings in Bavaria and provided a more stable component in the farming community than their full-time colleagues . |
| 8 | Just under half of the fifty-one social work records examined did not contain a specific reference to the exact nature of the abuse , making opaque references to ‘ sexual abuse ’ , ‘ interference ’ and ‘ molestation ’ . |
| 9 | Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that there are 24 000 cases of gonorrhoea each day in South America , that is just under half the total yearly figures for England . |
| 11 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 12 | Domestic appliances use just under half of the electricity supplied to homes . |
| 13 | Yet calculations based on the average number of listeners per set showed Tanganyika 's regular radio audience to be probably just under half a million . |
| 14 | Indeed , the probability is ( one survey shows that 41 per cent of people name speaking in public as their greatest fear ) that just under half of them do not enjoy presenting . |
| 15 | As an aside the research revealed that just under half of the women questioned did not support the women 's liberation movement . |
| 16 | If it is taken to include distribution , financial and business services , government , and a whole range of what are defined as miscellaneous services — which incorporate such disparate occupations as garage mechanics and actors — the sector accounted for just under half the labour force and a similar share of output by the early 1970s . |
| 17 | Rather more than half the wealth of Coventry belonged to men whose assessments reached three figures in 1522 ; in Exeter just under half . |
| 18 | Just under half of the housewives ( 49% ) agree with Barbara Cartland and Lady Lothian ( organiser of the Women Of The Year lunches and patron of the National Council of Women ) that theirs should be a salaried job . |
| 19 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 20 | In 1981 , for example , just under half of the male labour force and around a third of the female labour force in service industries were in manual , ‘ blue-collar ’ occupations . |
| 21 | The changes of recent years have brought a small but measurable increase in the size of the audience , now at just under half a million listeners , in spite of its transmission being confined to AM at an off-peak time . |
| 22 | Just under half of lone older women compared with just under two-fifths of single older men had incomes on or below the poverty line . |
| 23 | In 1961 and 1962 the USSR had provided virtually all of Cuba 's oil imports and had purchased just under half of its sugar crop ( Gouré and Rothenberg : 1975 , p. 52 ) . |
| 24 | The radial shields are approximately triangular , longer than broad just under half the disk radius in length , and are contiguous only distally . |
| 25 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |
| 26 | Its total population was just under half a million . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom has some 35,000 schools in total , with just under half a million teachers and over nine million pupils ( 1987–figures : Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 10 and 15 ) . |
| 28 | Altogether just under half ( 48% ) of the 3- and 4-year-old population received some education at school , mostly on a part-time basis ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , p. iv and Table 16 ) . |
| 29 | Just under half of all university students ( excluding OU students ) live in colleges , halls of residence , or other accommodation provided by their university ; another third live in lodgings or privately rented accommodation ; and the rest live at home . |
| 30 | Women outnumber men in the teaching profession , making up over three-quarters of the teachers in primary schools , and just under half of the teachers in secondary schools . |