Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus pushed himself off and floated rapidly around the Lift , bringing himself expertly to a stop less than a metre from the slight form of Christine LaFayette . |
| 2 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 3 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 4 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 5 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 6 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 7 | On July 14 , less than a year since his accident , he played in a one-day pro-am and won with a 68 . |
| 8 | For it neatly encapsulates the state of public morale in Britain less than a year into the fourth consecutive Conservative term . |
| 9 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 10 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 11 | But Marty had to learn his trade fast , since he began teaching guitar less than a year after starting to play himself ! |
| 12 | Here , less than a year after the ending of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the north-east , was a proper casus belli which was important to each side in the wider conflict . |
| 13 | Under the title Crime Knows No Boundaries the report was published on 19 January 1966 , less than a year after the inception of the policy group . |
| 14 | For , less than a year after that picture had been taken , Tony was dead and Lisa , six months pregnant , her life suddenly shattered , was on her own . |
| 15 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 16 | Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter . |
| 17 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , confirmed in Inverness yesterday that elections for the single-tier authorities would take place less than a year after those due next year for the regional councils . |
| 18 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |
| 19 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 20 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 21 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 22 | Fremont , California-based Everex Systems Inc cut its workforce by another 150 people , 25% to 500 , less than a quarter of its size 15 months ago . |
| 23 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 24 | Thus the total revenue from direct taxes in Edward 's reign , up to 1551 , was only about £300,000 , less than a quarter of the cost of the war . |
| 25 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 26 | In a renovated Georgian terrace house less than a quarter of a mile from the Civic Centre , actors , actresses , arts officers , leisure officers , artists-in-residence , playwright-in-residence , and a visiting jazz musician gathered together to laugh , to sing , to eat spinach salad and green bean salad and mackerel pate and wholemeal bread and curried brown rice : they played games , word games , charades , quotation games . |
| 27 | Once in the UK , less than a quarter of legally imported waste is incinerated . |
| 28 | The body was found in the playing field of Pittville School in Cheltenham , less than a quarter of a mile from the Gold Cup racecourse . |
| 29 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 30 | If I can use erm an analogy of my own rather than of his , to produce erm a detailed adaptation of an organism to a specific way of life , if only large steps , large mutational changes were possible , would be a little like trying a surgeon trying to remove erm an appendix with a scalpel mounted on some kind of trolley clamp with the rule that he could n't move it less than a foot at a time . |