Example sentences of "had [vb pp] less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing her sister well , Fabia could only marvel then that when Barney was , by the sound of it , so desperately ill , Cara appeared to be making every effort to rise above the shocking news she had received less than an hour ago . |
| 2 | Mr Ted Hartill , the City of London surveyor , said post-war buildings had suffered less than older buildings . |
| 3 | If human death is a measure of suffering , then David Damiani would surely have agreed that he had suffered less than Shlomo Green . |
| 4 | The provisions were all jumbled together , and she could see at once that three of the eggs were smashed ; but , on the whole , the basket had suffered less than she had herself . |
| 5 | They had suffered less than the other armies from the evil weather up to then , but in the days that followed Wales and September did their worst , and it was difficult to keep open their lengthening supply lines . |
| 6 | Prior to 1917 most Belorussian peasant farms had belonged to individual families and had averaged less than 20 acres . |
| 7 | They had averaged less than 20 acres , whereas in Kursk guberniia heavily populated and extensive communes prevailed . |
| 8 | As they poured into Westminster from remote corners of the Scottish highlands and seats in the English shires ( fifty-nine of the government supporters had attended less than one tenth of the sittings of the house in that session ) , it was clear that those who had championed the House of Lords as a place where party discipline took second place to wisdom had an altogether too rosy view of things . |
| 9 | A month which had seen less and less of Cornelius Murphy . |
| 10 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 11 | However , as the day had progressed Ross had grown less and less ‘ cheerful ’ . |
| 12 | In the last day or two , she realised , she had thought less and less about Hugh , whereas her curiosity concerning Fen was mounting hourly . |
| 13 | Over half ( 235 , 56% ) of 419 employed adults with cystic fibrosis had had less than two weeks ' sick leave in the previous year , and 34% ( 144 ) had had less than 1 week . |
| 14 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 15 | Tolkien , when he read this suggestion after Lewis 's death — and after his own relationship with Lewis had become less than happy — rejected it as entirely unworthy . |
| 16 | The Volvo had arrived less than twenty minutes later . |
| 17 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 18 | This could be because , in flexibility of choice , these two credit types are closer to using cash ; 17 per cent of cash buyers said they had spent less than expected , compared with only 6 per cent with other types of credit ( see Appendix 1 , Table 25 ) . |
| 19 | None had spent less than nine years in Jamaica before leaving , so that all had learnt their first language there . |
| 20 | The orchestra , extremely democratically-run and independent-minded , was bruised , strained and a little anxious about its standards after clashes with the great maestro , who at the same time had spent less and less time with it . |
| 21 | Sure enough , it was one I had ringed less than 24 hours previously , and it had been found drowned in a bucket of custard ! |
| 22 | They had gained less than a hundred yards . |
| 23 | The huge stone-faced clock overlooking the stadium had progressed less than four minutes when his confidence was vindicated . |
| 24 | The whole operation had taken less than three minutes . |
| 25 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 26 | The French Revolution had begun less than a hundred years before ; the Paris Commune was only nine years away . |
| 27 | Thus , damply and noisily , ended the invasion of England by the Young pretender ; the whole campaign south of the Border had lasted less than six weeks . |
| 28 | The car chase had lasted less than a minute . |
| 29 | What steps is he taking to ensure that this year local authorities such as Southwark , which a week or two ago had paid less than one fifth of its mandatory grant cheques to eligible students , pay up , so as to minimise student hardship ? |