Example sentences of "[verb] less than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 2 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 3 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 4 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 5 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 6 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 7 | PRINCE Albert of Monaco , above , has been hit with a paternity suit less than a month after beating a similar claim . |
| 8 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 9 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 11 | At a rough estimate , staff are currently recycling less than a quarter of the paper LASMO buys . |
| 12 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 13 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 14 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 15 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 16 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 17 | Both Wagamama and Belgo are open every day from midday until eleven , neither accepts bookings , and you can get away with spending less than a tenner in either . |
| 18 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 19 | Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old . |
| 20 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 21 | ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse . |
| 22 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 23 | Welsh flanker Stuart Lane lasted less than a minute in South Africa , while Irish stand-off Paul Dean had his tour ended in Australia before half-time in the first match . |
| 24 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 25 | Being ‘ out of the labour market ’ is defined as earning less than a quarter of the average male industrial earnings — £29.50 per week in 1982 . |
| 26 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 27 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 28 | The policy speech comes less than a month before the likely date for ministers to set out the balance of subjects in the new curriculum for Scots children aged between five and 14 . |
| 29 | The news comes less than a month after the release of his latest acclaimed opus , ‘ Jehovakill ’ , and the announcement that three Town & Country club shows had sold out prior to the tour being pulled . |
| 30 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |