Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 2 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 4 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 5 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |