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short of

adjective as in barring

adjective as in minus

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“This was the closest state senate race in the state, but unfortunately it appears that we will fall just short of victory,” she added.

They drew the outside edge of Rahul on four occasions, but each fell well short of the slip cordon.

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The Los Angeles Unified School District showed strong gains in newly released state metrics and reached a record graduation rate, but overall academic performance fell well short of state learning goals.

That’s not to say a Body Count show is anything short of raucous or provocative, Ice-T bringing the noise and intensity with his equally pumped high school OGs in the band.

The NFU has pointed out that if 500 estates were affected per year that could amount to 15,000 over 30 years - but this would still be some way short of the 70,000 figure.

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