Example sentences of "less than an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 2 | Championship at Hillside , he holed his final putt of less than an inch in snooker-fashion with the grip-end of his putter . |
| 3 | Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor . |
| 4 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 5 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 6 | Less than an hour of BAD-style promo fun brings us excerpts from Nic Roeg and The Cotton Club , steals from James Bond and Sergio Leone , plus a rumble on the Westway directed by Jim Jarmusch . |
| 7 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 8 | Less than an hour after the six were freed Kenneth Baker , the Home Secretary , announced the establishment of a Royal Commission on the criminal justice system . |
| 9 | And a man has died in hospital less than an hour after being rescued from his blazing bungalow . |
| 10 | Less than an hour in their company had brought them to the boil . |
| 11 | Less than an hour before the end Europe 's chances of retaining an outright lead were judged to be somewhere between slim and nil but that was before Mark James and Howard Clark made their massive contribution . |
| 12 | Two thirds of the Swiss population can reach it in less than an hour by road or rail . |
| 13 | Tucked in the south-east corner of Bavaria , just across the border from Austria and less than an hour from Salzburg , this dramatic resort lies in the heart of forest . |
| 14 | I was on the erm bypass at this point about erm less than an hour from home |
| 15 | If the glider is down wind of the site , the decision to return must be taken before the glider gets to less than an angle of about 20° to the field in light winds , and 30–40° in windy weather . |
| 16 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |