Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] less [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 2 | There were not so many of them : five , to be precise , and one of those was Charles , and another her first husband Edgar Lintot , to whom she had remained married for less than a year . |
| 3 | CAFE Quick is a state-of-the-art vending machine which dispenses freshly cooked meals from frozen in less than a minute . |
| 4 | The use of prohibitions was either barred or restricted in certain cases — in those concerned with less than a quarter of the tithes of a parish , and with violence against the clergy , for example . |
| 5 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 6 | A third of Spain 's workers have contracts of employment valid for less than a year , living in permanent insecurity about being laid off . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be dead in less than a year . |