Example sentences of "less than an [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 2 | THE ALBUM that launched a thousand NME headlines and , more pertinently , confirmed once and for all that rap was no passing fad and was , in fact , nothing less than an art form . |
| 3 | Therefore , if the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than an equilibrium amount ; then , if the scale of production is temporarily diminished somewhat below that equilibrium amount , it will tend to return ; thus the equilibrium is stable for displacements in that direction . |
| 4 | The dorsal most or second dorsal most arm spines are the longest about 1½ arm segments long , the ventral ones usually less than an arm segment in length . |
| 5 | The dorsal or second dorsalmost spines is the longest , up to 2 arm segments in length , the ventral arm spines are short often less than an arm segment in length . |
| 6 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk usually covered by plates sometimes with thickened skin ; radial shield usually conspicuous ; arm combs sometimes present ; one to many apical papillae flanked by a continuous series of oral papillae ; second oral tentacle pore opening outside the mouth slit or opening outside but entering the mouth slit via a furrow ; oral shield variable in shape and size ; arms varying size ; arm spines usually less than an arm segment in length and usually appressed . |