Example sentences of "it [vb past] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as time went on , it became less of a joke . |
| 2 | It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 5 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 6 | Strangely , it seemed less dark out on the water than on land . |
| 7 | A harsh restructuring of basic industries , particularly steel and shipbuilding , took place under the Socialists ' rule , although it relied less than in Britain on the power of the ‘ market ’ and more on the intervention of the state . |
| 8 | The Duma discussed foreign policy only once a year , when the ministry 's budget came under scrutiny : it has been estimated that it spent less than 1 per cent of its time on foreign affairs . |
| 9 | ( It cut less ice with Romanian miners in 1977 , for which see chapter VI below . ) |
| 10 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 11 | Although it bid less than TSW , the latter 's business plan was deemed unviable by the Independent Television Commission with a £16.1m bid . |
| 12 | For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life . |
| 13 | It mattered less than the Fourniers ? ’ |
| 14 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 15 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 16 | When it reported in 1955 it demanded less permissiveness , not more . |
| 17 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 18 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Mothers welcomed the short hair because it presented less problems than long hair . |
| 21 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 22 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 23 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 25 | Though this was a less controversial aim it had less emotional kick . |
| 26 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |