Example sentences of "[noun] for less [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 2 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 3 | Prices will be announced at Motorfair , but as with Skoda and Lada you should be able to buy this Escort-size car for less than a Fiesta . |
| 4 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 5 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 6 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 7 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 8 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 9 | you could eat at anywhere in Spain for less than a tenner any day |
| 10 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 11 | BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year . |
| 12 | Although in his new post for less than a month , Alf has made such an impression at Polypropylene Park that throughout the League his team are already being nicknamed ‘ Busby 's Test Tube Babes ’ . |
| 13 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 14 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 15 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 16 | I 've known the wretched man for less than a week ! |
| 17 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 18 | Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year . |
| 19 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 20 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 21 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |
| 22 | He got into the van for less than a minute , then went back to his room , and Latowa drove off . |
| 23 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |