Example sentences of "for less [subord] [art] year " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year .
3 Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer .
4 A third of Spain 's workers have contracts of employment valid for less than a year , living in permanent insecurity about being laid off .
5 But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages .
6 Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high .
7 BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year .
8 Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 .
9 To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; …
12 Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year .
13 Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family .
14 It ran for less than a year .
15 It ran for less than a year .
16 The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year .
17 The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard .
18 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year …
19 This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time .
20 An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’
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