Example sentences of "[vb past] for less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 4 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 5 | The Seamen 's United lasted for less than a decade . |
| 6 | 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 . |