Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] less than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 2 | Up in the Pennines , nine out of ten people of Staincliffe wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned less than a pound 's worth of moveables . |
| 3 | Poor little Johann survived less than a month . |
| 4 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 7 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 8 | By the time they returned , Ingrid had less than a week left , and she was becoming agitated . |