Example sentences of "less [conj] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 2 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 3 | Peter Davenport , who joined Middlesbrough from Manchester United for £700,000 less than a year ago , may seek a move after being left out of the squad for Saturday 's game at Watford . |
| 4 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 5 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 6 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 7 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 8 | Less than a year from launch , the Bugatti 110 is slowly emerging from the shadows . |
| 9 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 10 | Less than a year later it appears even this will be inadequate . |
| 11 | Even before provisions against third-world debt and local-authority swaps , Midland made only £616m in 1989 — 11% less than a year earlier . |
| 12 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |
| 13 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 14 | Slobs like me who iron only when they are forced to , and then only the bits that show , stand to recoup their investment after less than a year 's worth of shirts . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be another Lebanon in less than a year . ’ |
| 16 | A little less than a year ago , the Labour leader of Leeds City Council , Jon Trickett , unveiled plans for a transformation of the city 's central shopping streets . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 19 | Which was strange , as she had spelt it out very clearly less than a year before , in a BBC TV interview . |
| 20 | In less than a year since the White Paper , 18 detailed Charters have been published . |
| 21 | An analysis by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) showed that less than a year after the first structural concrete was poured , the project was already £136 million over budget . |
| 22 | Less than a year later the Technical Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) was announced , and this , though still organized by the MSC , was a scheme that started with pupils at school , in the last two years before their compulsory attendance at school came to an end , and continued until they were 18 . |
| 23 | Less than a year later Isaac Newton was born . |
| 24 | After this , Burke went on to win 3 out of 4 fights in less than a year , and in 1828 was matched with William Fitzmaurice at Harpenden which went 106 rounds and lasted 3 hours . |
| 25 | A third of Spain 's workers have contracts of employment valid for less than a year , living in permanent insecurity about being laid off . |
| 26 | MOST MOVING DEMISE : Coronation Street 's Ted Sullivan , who died of a brain tumour after less than a year 's marriage to Rita Fairclough . |
| 27 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 28 | In less than a year the pair have already made significant progress . |
| 29 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 30 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |