Sentence examples for is a shade under from inspiring English sources

"The norm is a shade under 4percentt -- so this was maybe one percentage less.

The national average is a shade under 50%, which is already high by international standards.An hour's drive east of Shenyang to the new town of Shenfu offers a glimpse of how much spending has been misallocated.

McGillvary is a shade under 6ft but still nudging 15st.

In addition, NBTY's debt is low its debt-to-equity ratio is a shade under 20%, easily coming in below my Lynch-based model's 80% limit.

By time the Universe is a shade under two billion years old — just 13-14% its current age — we should have galaxies in it with Sun-like stars, Earth-like planets, and nothing to prevent life from arising or sustaining.

The average of the distances to those eight binary systems, which conveniently are all located near the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a shade under 163,000 light-years a figure that's accurate to about 2.2%, the team reports onlight-years a Nature.

Assuming they remain a contender, that figure should increase in line with the sport's overall growth over the next decade, which lately has been a shade under 8 percent a year.

When Shaw started, the rate for the first class he admitted (in fall 2006) was a shade under 11percentt.

Meanwhile, in 2008, the average net price of a year of college at a public four-year institution was a shade under $3,000.

The company said that at a trading level, stripping out one-off redundancy and restructuring costs, the titles' losses were a shade under £10m last year.

Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.There are already signs of the conflict this would cause.