Example sentences of "[noun] for less than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 2 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 3 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 4 | A problem arises if the seller ( i.e. the person who puts the goods into the sale ) imposes a reserve price and the auctioneer nevertheless accepts a bid for less than the reserve price . |
| 5 | Prices will be announced at Motorfair , but as with Skoda and Lada you should be able to buy this Escort-size car for less than a Fiesta . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 8 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 9 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 10 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 11 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 12 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 13 | you could eat at anywhere in Spain for less than a tenner any day |
| 14 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 15 | BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year . |
| 16 | Although in his new post for less than a month , Alf has made such an impression at Polypropylene Park that throughout the League his team are already being nicknamed ‘ Busby 's Test Tube Babes ’ . |
| 17 | A FAMILY of four can enjoy a healthy diet for less than the Government 's estimated £10 a person a week , according to a new recipe booklet from The Sugar Bureau . |
| 18 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 19 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 20 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 21 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 22 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 23 | I 've known the wretched man for less than a week ! |
| 24 | Passengers will be able to travel the 3,440 miles from London to New York on Virgin flights for less than a 40-minute business-class trip across the Channel . |
| 25 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 26 | However , the degree of flexibility is limited , and a dealer will rarely sell a rug for less than the lower limit associated with items of similar quality from the same group . |
| 27 | Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year . |
| 28 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 29 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 30 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |