Example sentences of "less than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 2 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 3 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 4 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 5 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |
| 6 | Right on the tree-lined promenade in the San Bartolomeo district , less than a mile from Diano Marina 's centre , the Hotel Mayola overlooks the sea and has its own sea water swimming pool unusually situated on a private beach . |
| 7 | Officers surrounded a house in Argyle Avenue , Hounslow less than a mile from Heathrow . |
| 8 | Incredible as it sounds a weekend package with Cresta can cost you less than a flight to Paris in the normal way . |