Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] less [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 2 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 3 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 4 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 5 | The chances are that the Lords , with the same rigorous three-stage scrutiny of the bill as in the Commons , but squeezed into less than a month , will give the treaty the nod . |
| 6 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 9 | It ran for less than a year . |
| 10 | The Seamen 's United lasted for less than a decade . |
| 11 | 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 . |