Sentence examples for shy of one from inspiring English sources

On a chilly March school night, just shy of one thousand people converged on Vicar Street theatre for an evening of light entertainment.

Neal Medlyn, the show's sound designer (he's a Kitchen employee, too; he'd manned the box office earlier in the evening), walked on, climbed into the cherry-picker, and sent it up, stopping just shy of one of the two big squares high up on the back wall (later in the show, they lit up).

(There are now more than 3.2m registered firearms in Australia, just shy of one for every eight people).

Hillview Reservoir, covering 90 acres and one of the last stops for the water before it reaches the city, holds just shy of one billion gallons.

Still, despite politics and simple supply-and-demand both conspiring to drive up prices for chocolate, spending on Valentine's chocolate in 2011 is expected to rise to $937 million– just shy of one billion dollars– this year.

They visited retailers in Pittsburgh, ranging from Zales to Tiffany, but ultimately bought a ring through Blue Nile: an elegant, hand-engraved platinum setting, which will showcase a round diamond, slightly shy of one carat.

Stoudemire had picked up his sixth foul — his 15th technical left him one shy of a one-game suspension — with about one minute left and the Knicks clinging to a 106-100 lead.

Location-based food discovery tool, Foodspotting has just picked up 3 million in series A funding from BlueRun Ventures, days shy of its one year anniversary on January 15th.

Almost one year and nothing to show for it". While the president is three and a half months shy of his one year mark, we get the point.

"As I understand it, we're two witnesses shy of completion, one of which is Mr. Valade".

The HP board replaced him with Leo Apotheker but fired him just shy of his one year anniversary last September.