Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] less than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 2 | For 1974–79 and 1979–84 which regions lose more and which lose less than the national average ? |
| 3 | Against assorted sporting Peugeots , Volkswagens and Rovers , some of which cost less than the S depending on specification , Ford 's newcomer would n't stand a ghost of a chance and you do n't need a back-to-back group test to confirm it . |
| 4 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
| 5 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This handmade table , which took less than a day to put together , made a great drink stand for the garden and conservatory |
| 8 | The next New Mums group was at her house ( she lived less than a mile away ) and she had phone me to encourage me to go . |
| 9 | The girl comes to see that she has less than the boy , and has been castrated already . |
| 10 | So from your point of view you were forced into bed with the Tories , but why are you spending less than the capping level ? |
| 11 | Linked to the reforms of the national insurance system are a set of proposals to strengthen the rights of workers who work less than a lull week . |
| 12 | ‘ George , ’ I said , ‘ we agreed less than an hour ago that there would not be a press announcement . ’ |
| 13 | Most countries allow their citizens to bring home articles without an import licence , providing they cost less than a certain amount , without paying excess duty . |
| 14 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They jumped less than a week later , at Luton Hoo on 28 May 1941 , under cover of a supposed air-raid jointly organized by XU and some elements of the Luftwaffe . |
| 17 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 18 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 21 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 22 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 23 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 24 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 25 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 26 | It mattered less than the Fourniers ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |
| 28 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 29 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 30 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |