Example sentences of "[prep] just under [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 2 | We actually did the job for just under five . |
| 3 | So for just under five hundred pounds you can spend the weekend at his upmarket country hotel at Purton with all day in the coal dust and grease of an old engine yard at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway . |
| 4 | They were in the air for just under 12 hours and were so short of fuel upon their return , an emergency landing had to be made at Ludham . |
| 5 | Steve Drewery , who caught two small rockling and a pout for just under seven oz and Mark Tomkin with a six oz flounder . |
| 6 | But for just under twenty quid you effectively get hold of the complete BR timetable ( for the whole of Great Britain ) , effective until 16th May 1993 . |
| 7 | In the remainder of the hundred these two groups accounted for just under 30 per cent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An analysis of their replies showed clearly that the great majority of them came from what are traditionally considered ‘ middle class ’ occupational groups , and that academics , students , and retired people ( the majority of whom were retired professionals ) accounted for just under half of all visitors . |
| 10 | One parent families tend to be slightly smaller than two parent families with an average of just under two children , compared to just over two children per family . |
| 11 | In Buckinghamshire , twenty four and a half thousand people are now without jobs , a fall of just under two hundred . |
| 12 | The town is the terminus of the unique narrow-gauge ( 2 feet 7½ inches ) rack-and-pinion Snowdon Mountain Railway , which has the steepest gradient ( I in 5 2 ) of any locomotive track in Britain , and climbs to a height of just under 3,500 feet . |
| 13 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 . |
| 14 | The hectic schedule ended in Cheltenham , where the Liberal democrats hope to overturn a Conservative majority of just under 5,000 . |
| 15 | ( The July OPEC production ceiling , set at a total of just under 22,500,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , had been suspended since late August — see p. 37641 — and the Financial Times of Dec. 14 estimated that current overall OPEC output was 400,000 bpd above the ceiling , despite the loss of 4,300,000 bpd of Iraqi and Kuwaiti exports . ) |
| 16 | Another fine entry of just under 500 pigs at McClelland 's in Ballyclare resulted in a great trade all round . |
| 17 | Harrison , who with colleagues has comprehensively studied deaths from asthma prospectively in Norwich over five years in a confidential inquiry , reports an average of just under five ( undoubtedly genuine ) deaths from asthma a year in a population of almost half a million . |
| 18 | With a combined weekly circulation for the various editions of just under 24,000 , the company 's managing director Robert Read said yesterday that the decision to seek printers elsewhere was taken because the company just could not justify spending around 2m ( pounds ) on new printing machines in Aberystwyth . |
| 19 | The Mikoyan Mig-25 had established the all-time altitude record of just under 120,000 feet . |
| 20 | There was another sharp trade for an entry of just under 100 calves , which sold to a top of £312 for a Belgian Blue with Friesian bulls to £215 . |
| 21 | The overall turnout was around 60 per cent compared with 76 per cent in 1986 , and an average in past elections of just under 80 per cent . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had a top speed of just under 20 km/h . |
| 24 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 25 | In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent . |
| 26 | Haussmann confirmed the buoyant state of the West German economy , with around 413,000 more in employment in 1989 than in 1988 and a moderate rate of inflation of just under 3 per cent per annum . |
| 27 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 28 | For example , a survey of just under 1,000 firms in the 1950s ( Industrial Welfare Society 1951 ) found that , even among the employers of skilled workers , a third were doubtful as to the worth of those over 45 , while 6 per cent considered such men ‘ too old ’ . |
| 29 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
| 30 | Unemployment reached a peak of just under three million in January 1933 and the total number of unemployed did not fall below one million until the outbreak of war . |