Example sentences of "[adv] for less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | ( 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 . ) |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
7 | If , however , the seller has been able to re-sell the goods elsewhere only at a loss ( i.e. for less than the buyer had agreed to pay ) the seller is entitled to deduct that loss from the refund . |