Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee .
2 It was due to open in less than a week .
3 Was it possible , after all , that Vologsky could be primed to defect in less than a month ?
4 That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week .
5 Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography .
6 The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck .
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