Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] less [subord] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 2 | Further , the minimum amount on which interest must be paid when held for any period of less than a week , if it is fair and reasonable to do so , has been increased from £10,000 to £20,000 . |
| 3 | For all its political militancy , the ILP was no less fearful of revolutionaries put their faith in industrial action : ‘ A general strike in the big key industries of Europe will put an end to the war in less than a week ’ , declared Solidarity , a shop steward paper , early in February . |
| 4 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 5 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 6 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 7 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 8 | I 've known the wretched man for less than a week ! |
| 9 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 10 | Roberts said it was ‘ pathetic ’ that for the second meeting with scientists in less than a week , the Tories had failed to send a spokesman . |
| 11 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 12 | A small brownish butterfly with a lifespan of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger . |
| 13 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |