Example sentences of "less than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 2 | Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned . |
| 3 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 4 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 5 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 6 | Etching times may vary from less than a minute to over half an hour . |
| 7 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 8 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 9 | Welsh flanker Stuart Lane lasted less than a minute in South Africa , while Irish stand-off Paul Dean had his tour ended in Australia before half-time in the first match . |
| 10 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 11 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |
| 12 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 13 | That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today . |
| 14 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 15 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 16 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 17 | During the breeding season , a male will establish a territory of less than a metre in diameter in a stream , and aggressively repel all intruders . |
| 18 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 19 | Less than a day after the Solingen fire , they had detained two teenagers . |
| 20 | Both Wagamama and Belgo are open every day from midday until eleven , neither accepts bookings , and you can get away with spending less than a tenner in either . |
| 21 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 22 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 23 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 24 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
| 25 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls . |
| 27 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 28 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 30 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |