Example sentences of "less [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 2 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 3 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 4 | The plane , or the source of the dense column of smoke , was now less than a hundred feet above the water . |
| 5 | The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag . |
| 6 | But in each instance the value of their haul amounted to less than a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 8 | It was less than a hundred metres away , and gave us a long hard look as we stood there . |
| 9 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 10 | They had gained less than a hundred yards . |
| 11 | Carwyn pointed out Pipeline , less than a hundred yards away . |
| 12 | Rosie Kruger was in the Rollercoaster , her favourite bar on West 43rd Street , less than a hundred yards away from the heart of Times Square . |
| 13 | Less than a hundred yards from the wall they swerved and re-grouped for a charge as the infantry swarmed up behind them . |
| 14 | Snails of the species Cepaea nemoralis , for example , usually die less than a hundred yards away from where they hatched . |
| 15 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 16 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 17 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 18 | There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved . |
| 19 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 20 | Less than a hundred miles away , in the small darkened room , the man at the screen watched the jet descend . |
| 21 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 22 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 23 | Less than a hundred men took part in that assault . |
| 24 | Less than a hundred klicks from Spiderglass Southern , out on the ice-desert . |
| 25 | They suggest that if current trends in world population growth , industrialisation , pollution , food production and the depletion of non-renewable resources continue , then within a short space of time , perhaps less than a hundred years , economic growth will come to a halt , the industrial base of the world economy will collapse and finally after severe global recession and famine , not only will population growth fall dramatically but so will the level of population itself . |
| 26 | The French Revolution had begun less than a hundred years before ; the Paris Commune was only nine years away . |
| 27 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 28 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 29 | Outremer — " the land beyond the sea " — was on the verge of extinction , less than a hundred years alter the men of the First Crusade had called it into life . |
| 30 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |