Example sentences of "less [subord] a [noun sg] after " in BNC.
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1 | Less than a day after the Solingen fire , they had detained two teenagers . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Less than a year after her arrival in Cotherstone , a crisis occurred . |
6 | 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 |
7 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
8 | Less than a month after the 1988 budget ( providing tax cuts for all income earners , but especially for those on high income ) , the government 's social security reforms came into force amid great controversy , with a revised scheme of welfare benefits . |
9 | PRINCE Albert of Monaco , above , has been hit with a paternity suit less than a month after beating a similar claim . |
10 | LESTER Piggott has declared himself fit to ride — less than a month after his horrific fall in the Breeders ' Cup . |
11 | Less than a month after the murder , the family celebrated Alex 's third birthday . |
12 | The news comes less than a month after the release of his latest acclaimed opus , ‘ Jehovakill ’ , and the announcement that three Town & Country club shows had sold out prior to the tour being pulled . |
13 | The defeat deprived the garrisons in Aquitaine of the reinforcements they needed , and less than a month after the destruction of Pembroke 's fleet du Guesclin entered Poitiers . |
14 | Less than a week after their first meeting at the poetry reading , she found a message waiting for her , asking her to ring Clelia 's number , and she rang , and Clelia invited herself round to tea . |
15 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
16 | Less than a week after achieving full independence on June 19 [ see p. 18159 ] , Kuwait was threatened by a claim to sovereignty over the whole of its territory by the Iraqi leader , Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem . |
17 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
18 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
19 | Less than a week after announcing that thirty one coal mines were to close , the President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine has backtracked , and cut the closure list to ten . |
20 | Contracts were agreed today , less than a week after Oxford 's last race this term , which was in sharp contrast to this season when problems arose with the days of the opening of the nineteen ninety season . |