Example sentences of "less [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane , or the source of the dense column of smoke , was now less than a hundred feet above the water . |
| 2 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 3 | Less than a hundred yards from the wall they swerved and re-grouped for a charge as the infantry swarmed up behind them . |
| 4 | There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved . |
| 5 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 6 | Less than a hundred klicks from Spiderglass Southern , out on the ice-desert . |
| 7 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 8 | X-rays and gamma rays are the shortest electromagnetic waves , with wavelengths less than a 1000 millionths of a centimetre . |
| 9 | The isolation — I have only once been in an admission ward less than a dozen miles from my home — and the physical environment — inappropriate design , upstairs dormitories that must be locked all day , uninvolving regimentation — are aspects of a system of care whose inadequacies should not be underestimated . |