Example sentences of "[adv] less [conj] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 2 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 3 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 4 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 5 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 6 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 7 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 9 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 10 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 11 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 12 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 13 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 14 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
| 15 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |