Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 2 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 3 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 4 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 5 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 6 | They 'll be there in less than an hour . ’ |
| 7 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |