Example sentences of "just under " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 2 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 3 | Were it an elephant , our feet would be in its midriff , our heads just under its rib-cage . |
| 4 | We are flying at a height of 11,000 metres and at a speed of just under 750kph . |
| 5 | Trim your cutting to just under a leaf node with a sharp knife or razor blade — they should end up around three inches long — and remove the leaves from the bottom half . |
| 6 | She looked up and her face was only just under control , balanced on the edge of screaming . |
| 7 | Only just under control . |
| 8 | Yield was just under 7.5t/ha ( 3t/acre ) , with 19% moisture . |
| 9 | Matt black with tiny fawn flecks , they are just under a centimetre long . |
| 10 | Place the top over a jam jar of water , with the base resting just under the water . |
| 11 | Then , guess the following statistics : chest ( around the fullest part ) ; for women , just under the bust ( where the edge of your bra would go ) ; waist ( not pulling your tummy in as hard as you can ) ; hips ; around one thigh , at the widest part at the top ; mid-thigh ; just above the knee ; just below the knee ; mid-calf ; ankle ; the top of one arm ( around the widest part ) ; around the arm mid-way between elbow and wrist . |
| 12 | The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go . |
| 13 | The first one came out of a mouth just under the right epaulette . |
| 14 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 15 | The ulcer in both sexes has a hard floor , which may feel like a small button just under the skin surface , varying in size from the barely discernible to the size of a finger-nail . |
| 16 | When doing top lashes look down into your mirror so it 's just under your nose . |
| 17 | When inhaled , the aromatic molecules of essential oils reach the lungs from where they diffuse across the air sacs into the surrounding blood capillaries ( which lie just under the surface of the sacs ) and eventually find their way into the main blood vessels from where they circulate in the blood and exert their therapeutic effect . |
| 18 | Place your hands horizontally on the upper chest just under the collar bone , fingers turning inwards towards each other , middle fingertips meeting . |
| 19 | Microtubules , of which tubulin is the major protein constituent , are located in a circumferential band in the equatorial plane just under the cell wall in discoid platelets , which suggests that they may be important in maintenance of the platelet cytoskeleton . |
| 20 | ‘ Before the fireman could fasten his belt ’ read the Wolverton Express report , ‘ there was a buzzing sound in the stables , the doors of which flew wide open and Bessie and Harry , with heads erect and eyes flashing , galloped to the shafts , stopping just under the suspended harness which dropped and was automatically locked on their backs ’ . |
| 21 | In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level . |
| 22 | Then I turn over and put my face under the water , and I can see that they 're all floating just under the surface of the water . |
| 23 | They took down the bucket labelled ‘ Buoyancy ’ and experimented with stones , shells , pieces of wood , metal bottle tops , forks , sponges , plastic boats and animals , plastic bobbins and two plastic cups , one of which sinks when filled with water and the other which floats just under the surface . |
| 24 | About one in four reckon they 're good for ten minutes , though just under one in five admit to ejaculating in less than two minutes . |
| 25 | He could see the crust of the earth trembling just under the Monument . |
| 26 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 27 | They are often lighter in the belly area , and their ovaries are visible just under the swim bladder when viewed with a strong back light . |
| 28 | The contrast well with slower moving goldfish and koi , and spend most of their time just under the water surface searching for any dried food or insects which may fall onto the water . |
| 29 | These fish will form a shoal with the golden varieties and will stay just under the water surface . |
| 30 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |