Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 3 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 4 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 5 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 6 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 7 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |
| 8 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 10 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 11 | So he was pretty disappointed when I went to see ALIEN 3 ( Cert 18 ; General ) and walked out after less than an hour , bored beyond belief . |
| 12 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 13 | She 'll have to dash around all day , collect the children from different parties and then get ready to go out in less than an hour . |
| 14 | Sunderland 's allocation of three and a half thousand tickets sold out in less than an hour . |
| 15 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 16 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |