Example sentences of "less [conj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Result — a rock-steady garden seat , built in less than a day , for less than £40 . |
| 2 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 3 | But then , under the new rules , Messrs Smith , Marsh , Nearn et al will be no threat to the major players : only 500 low-volume type-approved cars to any one design can be made each year — a number of Marcoses , Westfields and Caterhams combined that 's less than a day 's output from Longbridge . |
| 4 | This handmade table , which took less than a day to put together , made a great drink stand for the garden and conservatory |
| 5 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 6 | Less than a day after the Solingen fire , they had detained two teenagers . |
| 7 | It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 9 | The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent . |
| 10 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 11 | Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads . |