Example sentences of "[prep] less [subord] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you leave this at the exit of ‘ San Donato ’ and turn right towards Tavernelle , after less than half a mile — along a turning on the right — you will come to the 16th century Villa Fillinelle . |
| 2 | The clock has been timed to a consistent gain of less than half a minute per week during several months of sustained testing . |
| 3 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
| 4 | The result is that the aircraft is about 30° off the inbound holding track , with less than half a minute to run to the holding point . |
| 5 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 6 | Over the radio we hear him snorting around , and we get too much scratching from when his jacket material rubs against the mike , but in less than half a minute he emerges onto the main road . |
| 7 | We have seen in this chapter how , in less than half a century , man 's view of the universe , formed over millennia , has been transformed . |
| 8 | But in less than half an hour , the country people dispersed themselves , when the garrison of the castle fired a ten-gun battery upon them , which it is believed killed several . |
| 9 | They reached Los Ilusiones in less than half an hour . |
| 10 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |
| 11 | They will be there in less than half an hour . |
| 12 | In less than half an hour , the rapture has vanished into the ether , and Highbury is once more what I have always known it to be — a refuge for depressives and malcontents , whingers and whiners . |
| 13 | ‘ Cai n't even cross a road in less than half an hour in this state . |
| 14 | It does , however , illustrate the wild contrasts of California , where large cities , near-deserted beaches , scorching deserts and cool redwood forests all lie within less than half a day 's drive of each other . |
| 15 | The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each . |
| 16 | Armed with a decade of research results , Sweden and Norway proposed that the weight of sulphur falling in rain or dust on each square metre should be kept at less than half a gram ( 0.5 g/S/m² ; or 5 kg per hectare ) . |
| 17 | Energy flashed past Ardamal in a long arc of fire , blistering the side of the shaft , missing his face by less than half a metre . |
| 18 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |