Example sentences of "[be] less than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 2 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 3 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 4 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 5 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 6 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 7 | In any other times , it can be less than a week . |
| 8 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 9 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 10 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 11 | There is less than a 5% probability that an object belonging to a population with velocity dispersion 120kms -1 moves so slowly ; alternatively , a 20 M and ; object in equipartition with solar-mass stars having 120kms -1 dispersion , has about even chance of moving more slowly than 25kms -1 . |
| 12 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 13 | If hardware flow control is used , the Z88 will bring RTS low when the receive buffer becomes more than half full and bring RTS high when the receive buffer is less than a quarter full . |
| 14 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 15 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 16 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 17 | But the venue is less than a mile away from Castlemorton Common , which was invaded by more than twenty thousand hippies a fortnight ago . |
| 18 | The Million Sterling Tournament is less than a month away . |
| 19 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 20 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 21 | Cosmeston , which is 5 miles south of Cardiff on the B4267 road , is less than an hour 's drive by car from the Severn Bridge and only 20 minutes directly past Cosmeston on the Cardiff-Barry route : visitors should alight at the Fort Road stop . |
| 22 | It is less than an hour 's drive across the border from where Roma was born in Londonderry . |
| 23 | be less than a want two hundred and eighty . |
| 24 | Well here 's the specification , length , Escort four two six eight so it 's about two point three , sorry two hundred and thirty millimetres longer , so it 's less than a foot |
| 25 | But er it 's less than a fortnight now . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's less than a hour 's drive . |
| 27 | But then , under the new rules , Messrs Smith , Marsh , Nearn et al will be no threat to the major players : only 500 low-volume type-approved cars to any one design can be made each year — a number of Marcoses , Westfields and Caterhams combined that 's less than a day 's output from Longbridge . |
| 28 | No , cos they 're fluorescent , it 's only about twelve watts , it 's less than a light bulb . |