Example sentences of "[verb] less [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 2 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 3 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 4 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 5 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 6 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 7 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 8 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 9 | The text of each chapter is split into sections averaging less than a page , each of which is introduced by an imaginative , succinct heading . |
| 10 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 11 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 12 | I was wearing a shirt of green silk loose round the wrists and my green linen culottes — I had found they creased less than a skirt when sitting in a coach . |
| 13 | Likewise , your shoes were made by the squadron " Moochie " , costing less than a pound . |
| 14 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
| 15 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 16 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 17 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 18 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 19 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 20 | The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent . |
| 21 | PRINCE Albert of Monaco , above , has been hit with a paternity suit less than a month after beating a similar claim . |
| 22 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 23 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 24 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 25 | That takes less than a microsecond ! |
| 26 | Nevertheless , a very short-term job — lasting less than a week — can be to his financial advantage . |
| 27 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 28 | At a rough estimate , staff are currently recycling less than a quarter of the paper LASMO buys . |
| 29 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 30 | This superb musical partnership , which began less than a year ago , is now firmly established — indeed Kieran and Frances have just completed their first album which is due for release in the New Year . |