Example sentences of "less than a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim , moonlit night . |
| 2 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 3 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 4 | In less than a generation the pirate peoples who were notorious for forging themselves and their sailing craft through impossible conditions had acquired the ability to command undreamed-of tonnage and horsepower with their big toes . |
| 5 | In less than a year the pair have already made significant progress . |
| 6 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 7 | Within less than a mile the swift darkness closed around them and they stopped . |
| 8 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 9 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 10 | In less than a month the Rose Bowl would be hers . |
| 11 | For less than a penny a day Business Update will monitor the financial progress of any company or business in the UK . |
| 12 | A voice says it 's solely from my pension , quite able and get enough to give to join the association at less than a penny a week . |
| 13 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 14 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 15 | In less than a week the impeccable Rochester had been transformed into a kind of boarding-house . |
| 16 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 17 | It 's only £50 a year — less than a Pound a week — but living 's cheaper in the country . |
| 18 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |