Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] less [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 2 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 4 | But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages . |
| 5 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 6 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 7 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 8 | In countries of labour shortage , undeveloped social hierarchy and a truculent and democratic working population , things might be different ; but in Britain and Germany , France and the Habsburg Empire , unlike Australia or the United States , the suitable maximum for the labouring class was a sufficiency of good decent food ( preferably with less than a sufficiency of strong drink ) , a modestly crowded dwelling , and clothing adequate to protect morals , health and comfort without risking improper emulation of the costume of their betters . |
| 9 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |
| 10 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 11 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 12 | By car , take the A351 Swanage road south of Wareham , turning left after less than a mile . |
| 13 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 14 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 15 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 16 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 17 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
| 18 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 19 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 20 | It also took typewriter ribbon spools , available everywhere at less than a £1 . |
| 21 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |