Example sentences of "[vb past] less than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 7 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 12 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |
| 13 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |