Example sentences of "[prep] less [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOST MOVING DEMISE : Coronation Street 's Ted Sullivan , who died of a brain tumour after less than a year 's marriage to Rita Fairclough . |
| 2 | Welcome back : After less than a year in football management , Swindon Town boss Glenn Hoddle has been chosen to take charge of a Football League team for a top match in Italy . |
| 3 | By car , take the A351 Swanage road south of Wareham , turning left after less than a mile . |
| 4 | KEVIN McKeever has been transfer-listed by Glentoran after less than a season at the Oval . |
| 5 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 6 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 7 | The established system may let the Conservatives into office with less than half the popular vote , but it also invites the prospect of a future Labour Government elected to office on perhaps 32 per cent of the vote and with the support of less than a quarter of the electorate as a whole . |
| 8 | The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 9 | During the breeding season , a male will establish a territory of less than a metre in diameter in a stream , and aggressively repel all intruders . |
| 10 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 11 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 12 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 13 | By giving Best a contract of less than a year , the RFU have asked the ultimate pragmatist to devise the most foolproof method of extending his own tenure — and that 's the safety-first approach . |
| 14 | The well-planned attack led to a campaign of less than a year . |
| 15 | Leases may be granted for short periods of less than a year , up to 999 years . |
| 16 | Money market securities are securities with maturities of less than a year . |
| 17 | Bonds are capital market securities and as such have maturities in excess of one year , unlike money market securities discussed in the last chapter which have maturities of less than a year . |
| 18 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 19 | This self-propelled weapon was not yet a serious threat ; it still had an effective range of less than a mile , but the tiny torpedo-boats which were beginning to make their appearance heralded a whole new range of warships for the future . |
| 20 | I understand that recent tests undertaken in Germany by PFI , ( the German equivalent to SATRA , the Northamptonshire based Footwear Technology Centre ) , have shown that after over 600 miles of testing , the Head Anatom revealed a reduction in height of less than a millimetre . |
| 21 | Further , the minimum amount on which interest must be paid when held for any period of less than a week , if it is fair and reasonable to do so , has been increased from £10,000 to £20,000 . |
| 22 | 1.3. b ( iv ) Of the 22 courses listed of less than a week , across all institutions , only one ( at a University ) was language related . |
| 23 | A small brownish butterfly with a lifespan of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger . |
| 24 | The chances are that the Lords , with the same rigorous three-stage scrutiny of the bill as in the Commons , but squeezed into less than a month , will give the treaty the nod . |
| 25 | Rugby lead 16–10 with less than a minute to go but a try under the posts brought a defeat by 17–16 that in David Ray 's words ‘ … did not seem to matter ’ . |
| 26 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 27 | Europeans were divided in 1880 into states as small as Montenegro , with less than a quarter of a million inhabitants , and as large as Russia , with between 90 and 100 million . |
| 28 | The use of prohibitions was either barred or restricted in certain cases — in those concerned with less than a quarter of the tithes of a parish , and with violence against the clergy , for example . |
| 29 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 30 | The situation was urgent — a handful of SSDs had made barely any progress with less than a year to transform policies and practice . |