Example sentences of "less than a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 2 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 3 | Less than a day after the Solingen fire , they had detained two teenagers . |
| 4 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 5 | THIS week Thomson Holidays resumed package tours to Lake Bled , Slovenia — less than a year after the civil war prompted an emergency evacuation of British tourists from their hotels last June . |
| 6 | By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated ; the remainder is bare peat , clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off . |
| 7 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 8 | Less than a quarter of the people observed using the shakers tasted their food before adding salt , suggesting that the salt-shaking habit is not related to the taste of the food and is essentially a ritual activity . |
| 9 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 10 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 11 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 12 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 13 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 14 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 15 | Being ‘ out of the labour market ’ is defined as earning less than a quarter of the average male industrial earnings — £29.50 per week in 1982 . |
| 16 | The use of prohibitions was either barred or restricted in certain cases — in those concerned with less than a quarter of the tithes of a parish , and with violence against the clergy , for example . |
| 17 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 18 | No less than a quarter of the non-agricultural work-force was consigned to the residuum of unskilled labour , excluded not only from political life but also from social rewards . |
| 19 | The established system may let the Conservatives into office with less than half the popular vote , but it also invites the prospect of a future Labour Government elected to office on perhaps 32 per cent of the vote and with the support of less than a quarter of the electorate as a whole . |
| 20 | At a rough estimate , staff are currently recycling less than a quarter of the paper LASMO buys . |
| 21 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 22 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 23 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 24 | The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 25 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 26 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 27 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 28 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 29 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 30 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |