Example sentences of "but [prep] less [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 2 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 3 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 4 | But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid . |
| 5 | But within less than an hour he was back on his farm . |
| 6 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |