Example sentences of "out [prep] [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some struggled against her , but few held out for more than a moment or two . |
| 2 | So he was pretty disappointed when I went to see ALIEN 3 ( Cert 18 ; General ) and walked out after less than an hour , bored beyond belief . |
| 3 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 4 | She 'll have to dash around all day , collect the children from different parties and then get ready to go out in less than an hour . |
| 5 | Sunderland 's allocation of three and a half thousand tickets sold out in less than an hour . |
| 6 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |