Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] less [subord] a month " in BNC.
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1 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
2 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
3 | Although in his new post for less than a month , Alf has made such an impression at Polypropylene Park that throughout the League his team are already being nicknamed ‘ Busby 's Test Tube Babes ’ . |
4 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
5 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
6 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
7 | It 's the second attack on visitors to Egypt in less than a month , the foreign office says the great majority of tourists experience no problems in Egypt , but adds . |
8 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |