Sentence examples similar to a shade over a third from inspiring English sources

Director Jackson maintains a fluctuating inner pulse, if occasionally a shade over-languid.

From a stop, the M Coupe reaches 60 m.p.h. in a shade over five seconds, a bit slower than a Corvette.

According to Guinness World Records, the fastest time for making a batch of ice cream is a shade over 18 seconds.

At a shade over 139 km, the third stage from Oundle to Kettering was the longest of the race.

At the moment Root has taken his career average to a shade over 56, which places him seventh in an all-time list of England batsmen, and the best since Ken Barrington – whose own monumental score in Manchester Root was two runs shy of matching – retired in 1968 with an average of 58.67.

Tucked into your pack - it weighs a shade over one pound in paperback -along with a first aid kit tailored to your adventure, it could turn potential disaster into mere unpleasantness.

Brazil's stockmarket was only a shade over 1% higher than a year earlier, and China's declined.

By this time Root, in a shade over five hours' batting,had already passed 150 for the fifth time in his short career.

A widely cited White House chart predicted that second quarter unemployment sans stimulus would be just a shade over 8%, and with the stimulus would be just below 8%.

The pessimists numbered a shade over 84%.

That makes St James's worth a shade over £4bn.