Example sentences of "less [subord] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He actually picked up and held daughter Renee — less than a fortnight after leaving model wife Rachel Hunter to share the tiny burden with a nanny . |
| 32 | For since fishermen require only trained aptitudes , and not any exceptional natural qualities , their number could be increased in less than a generation to almost any extent that was necessary to meet the demand ; while the industries connected with building boats , making nets , etc. being now on a larger scale would be organized more thoroughly and economically . |
| 33 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 34 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
| 35 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 36 | ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse . |
| 37 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 38 | A serious crisis erupted within the Janata Dal party ( the main component of the ruling National Front coalition ) in mid-July , and came close to destroying India 's coalition government after less than a year in power . |
| 39 | Welcome back : After less than a year in football management , Swindon Town boss Glenn Hoddle has been chosen to take charge of a Football League team for a top match in Italy . |
| 40 | Less than a year from launch , the Bugatti 110 is slowly emerging from the shadows . |
| 41 | THIS week Thomson Holidays resumed package tours to Lake Bled , Slovenia — less than a year after the civil war prompted an emergency evacuation of British tourists from their hotels last June . |
| 42 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 43 | Less than a year after her arrival in Cotherstone , a crisis occurred . |
| 44 | And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved |
| 45 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
| 46 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 47 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 48 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 49 | By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated ; the remainder is bare peat , clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off . |
| 50 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 51 | Less than a quarter of the people observed using the shakers tasted their food before adding salt , suggesting that the salt-shaking habit is not related to the taste of the food and is essentially a ritual activity . |
| 52 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 53 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 54 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 55 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 56 | Less than a quarter of pre-school children have nursery places . |
| 57 | At the moment , automated workflow is used in less than a quarter of all electronic document management systems ; by 1995 it is projected to have jumped to over three quarters . |
| 58 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 59 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 60 | This was not an uncommon state of affairs : less than a quarter of a mile away , at St Augustine 's , a similarly tense situation was working towards a violent conclusion . |