Example sentences of "[noun] in less [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
| 2 | If they hit it , it would rip the bottom out of Golden Girl in less than a second . |
| 3 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 4 | For all its political militancy , the ILP was no less fearful of revolutionaries put their faith in industrial action : ‘ A general strike in the big key industries of Europe will put an end to the war in less than a week ’ , declared Solidarity , a shop steward paper , early in February . |
| 5 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 6 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 7 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 8 | Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads . |
| 9 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 10 | After this , Burke went on to win 3 out of 4 fights in less than a year , and in 1828 was matched with William Fitzmaurice at Harpenden which went 106 rounds and lasted 3 hours . |
| 11 | Research has shown that the mechanisms in the human brain go through the anger response in less than a second . |
| 12 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 13 | It is unusual for a major organisation to change its chief executive four times in less than a decade and the fact that they chose Roche each time — in a highly competitive market — is an impressive record in the headhunting world . |
| 14 | But this Subject had n't lost him by accident : she had brushed him off within minutes in less than a quarter-mile of straight well-lit street . |
| 15 | Normally held once a year , this was the third plenum in less than a year ( third plenum , November 1988 ; fourth plenum , June 1989 , to dismiss Zhao Ziyang ; fifth plenum , November 1989 , to rectify the economy ) reflecting the rapid pace of change . |
| 16 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 17 | It 's the second attack on visitors to Egypt in less than a month , the foreign office says the great majority of tourists experience no problems in Egypt , but adds . |
| 18 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 19 | Roberts said it was ‘ pathetic ’ that for the second meeting with scientists in less than a week , the Tories had failed to send a spokesman . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be another Lebanon in less than a year . ’ |
| 21 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 22 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 23 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 24 | Public disenchantment with the fruits of democratization , and voter fatigue ( the second round on Oct. 14 was the sixth nationwide ballot in less than a year ) , were blamed for widespread apathy towards the elections . |
| 25 | Nearly 500 jobs have been lost in the steel industry at Shotton in less than a year . |
| 26 | The history of three German invasions in less than a century , together with the ambiguous record of the French under German occupation onwards , and the sudden , unexpected , role as one of the victorious powers , have left a mixed historical residue composed of fear , awe and mistrust . |
| 27 | They drew three coverts blank , found at a fourth , but lost the line in less than a mile . |
| 28 | He moved the rest of the boxes in less than a minute . |
| 29 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |
| 30 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |