Example sentences of "just [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the quinquennium 1982–83 to 1986–87 , i.e. after the major phases of absorption of other large courses , it has remained just below half of the FTE students in the Polytechnic . |
| 2 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 3 | DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer Programme , with the aim of promoting widespread awareness amongst UK enterprises of the need for , and benefits of , Open Systems , is now just over half way through its three-year life . |
| 4 | just over half way . |
| 5 | We are now just over half way through our year long programme of fund raising in aid of Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and the efforts of JM employees past and present and their families to raise money for this most worthwhile cause have been quite fantastic . |
| 6 | So just over half way in a year . |
| 7 | This could give the British public just under half the 2,183 million shares on offer . |
| 8 | This could give the British public just under half the 2,183 million shares on offer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has already won 1,267 — just under half of those so far contested . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just under half the arable area was grazed and when added to the permanent grass area this made a total of 5,700 ha . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Domestic appliances use just under half of the electricity supplied to homes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As an aside the research revealed that just under half of the women questioned did not support the women 's liberation movement . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rather more than half the wealth of Coventry belonged to men whose assessments reached three figures in 1522 ; in Exeter just under half . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The radial shields are approximately triangular , longer than broad just under half the disk radius in length , and are contiguous only distally . |