Sentence examples for comprise just under from inspiring English sources

Women comprise just under half of the U.S. economy and have lost fewer jobs than men in this recession, putting them in position to become the majority of the nation's workers.

Today, the four giant planets comprise just under 99% of all the mass orbiting the Sun.

In USA, women comprise just under 50% of applicants and enrolments and this proportion has been stable from 2001-8; andlicant and enrolment numbers have scarcely changed over 25 years, being stable around 17,000 per annum [ 7].

By the 1960s they comprised just under a third of the world's population.

The town is part of the Serb republic (RS) which comprises just under half Bosnia's land, leaving the rest to a federation dominated by Muslims and Croats.

A TfN press officer later emailed to say the sum comprised "just under £5bn on national [ie strategic] road schemes set out in the Roads Investment Strategy, £5bn on local transport schemes and local highways maintenance [note that this includes a range of modal schemes] and around £3bn on national rail schemes".

The outcome variable at 18 years (n = 4,566) comprised just under half of the core working sample (n = 10,405).

In Israel at the end of 2002 there were approximately 655,000 elderly individuals, aged 65 and above, comprising just under 10% of the population [ 2].

Of households' financial assets, 54% are kept in bank deposits or under the mattress; shares comprise just 8.5%.

In fact, such woods comprise just 8% of the Forestry Commission's land.

Officers eat up half the county payroll but comprise just 29percentt of the work force.