Example sentences of "[verb] for less [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 2 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |
| 3 | Now it accounts for less than a quarter . |
| 4 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 5 | In semelparous forms , which breed only once , there is often a sudden loss of function after reproduction ; adult mayflies live for less than a week , and male Pacific salmon show catastrophic senescence after their single breeding attempt . |
| 6 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 7 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 8 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 9 | The Seamen 's United lasted for less than a decade . |
| 10 | The Crnojević dynasty lasted for less than a century , but during this period the foundations of a separate Montenegrin nation , with its own forms of government and its own culture , began to crystallise . |
| 11 | It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location . |