Example sentences of "less [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 2 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 3 | They cost around £50 a piece , less than a tenth the cost of the gas lasers . |
| 4 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 5 | The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels . |
| 6 | Gryschenko , from Kiev , married and with a child less than a year old , joined with all the team working long into the night at Hamble to prepare Fazisi 's bare hull for the race . |
| 7 | If only one of those people is wondering what to do on a Friday night , thumbs through the listings , spots your band 's name , and thinks ‘ I 've heard of that band , they must be worth seeing ’ , that sticker , which cost you less than a penny , has been very cost effective . |
| 8 | But … at school less than a month ago she had lost her temper with her maths teacher . |
| 9 | Super-shy George Michael bought his Californian dream home for £3 million two years ago , but he 's spent less than a fortnight in the futuristic house . |
| 10 | Do n't tell me that little toy cost you less than a hundred and twenty , Cullam . ’ |
| 11 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 12 | Soft drink sales last year were £115million , less than a tenth of the group 's revenue . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 14 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 15 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 16 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 17 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 18 | However , less than a month later , I received a telephone call from the home . |
| 19 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 20 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 21 | That is , less than a third of the clergy are members of the DUP . |
| 22 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 23 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 24 | Still , Germany has no very long history as a unitary state ( less than a century ) and has had three capitals since 1918 — Weimar , Berlin and Bonn . |
| 25 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 26 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 27 | The writ was issued less than a month after Mr Branson and his airline began libel proceedings of their own against BA and Lord King , its chairman . |
| 28 | At a more advanced workshop , tutors with a professional interest may help explain techniques if this is required , though in the first instance the rough-and-ready style of amateurish video pays off more dividends as it intimidates beginners less than a smoothly polished film , and conveys the sense of ‘ being there ’ to the viewers . |
| 29 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 30 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |