Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] less than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outbreak comes less than a month after the bug struck 11 children in the intensive care unit at Guy 's Hospital , London . |
| 2 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 3 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 4 | Although the revolt lasted less than a month and its effects were confined to a small region , Gubec became a folk hero to the peasants . |
| 5 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 6 | Up in the Pennines , nine out of ten people of Staincliffe wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned less than a pound 's worth of moveables . |
| 7 | And every Saab dealer is now bound to down tools and help you out without prior booking if the job takes less than an hour . |
| 8 | Poor little Johann survived less than a month . |
| 9 | Now we know why the bream weighs less than a side-on view suggests it should . |
| 10 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 11 | Welsh flanker Stuart Lane lasted less than a minute in South Africa , while Irish stand-off Paul Dean had his tour ended in Australia before half-time in the first match . |
| 12 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 13 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 14 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 15 | This enterprise lasted less than a year . |
| 16 | But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view . |
| 17 | The scheme also insists on lower stocking rates for farm livestock … each of these cattle has two acres of space to roam around … most cattle have less than an acre . |
| 18 | Mr Corden 's departure comes less than a month after Frank Gray was sacked as manager of the Third Division 's bottom club . |
| 19 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 20 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 21 | The news comes less than a month after the release of his latest acclaimed opus , ‘ Jehovakill ’ , and the announcement that three Town & Country club shows had sold out prior to the tour being pulled . |
| 22 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 23 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 24 | Taping the man 's mouth , hands , and ankles took less than a minute . |
| 25 | The knock on his studio door came less than an hour later . |
| 26 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 27 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 28 | Café Quick meals take less than a minute to heat up |
| 29 | The row comes less than a year after Lovell had to rehouse 17 families in nearby Kites Close after it was discovered THEIR homes were crumbling . |
| 30 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |