Example sentences of "[adv] less than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 2 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 3 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm already less than a metre high . |
| 5 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 6 | Her tilted smile put the usual dent , something just less than a dimple , at the corner of her mouth as she pulled on a robe bought only three days previously , sumptuous emerald silk with an elaborate multicoloured dragon embroidered all over the back . |
| 7 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 8 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 9 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 10 | Henry VI , still less than a year old , already king of England , now assumed the crown of France , a position which his father had never quite achieved . |
| 11 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 12 | Which was strange , as she had spelt it out very clearly less than a year before , in a BBC TV interview . |
| 13 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 14 | Probably less than a week . |
| 15 | In fact it was slightly less than a minute . |
| 16 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 17 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 18 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 19 | A little less than a year ago , the Labour leader of Leeds City Council , Jon Trickett , unveiled plans for a transformation of the city 's central shopping streets . |
| 20 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 21 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Despite a tug of interest he moved away , and after a little less than a minute Alison returned . |
| 23 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 24 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 25 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 26 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 27 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 28 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 29 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 30 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |