Example sentences of "[vb pp] less [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTLAND 's preparations for the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox on Wednesday bordered on the farcical yesterday when Rangers ' Richard Gough and Stuart McCall were forced to withdraw from Andy Roxburgh 's squad and Ally McCoist was given less than a 50-50 chance of playing . |
| 2 | Knowing her sister well , Fabia could only marvel then that when Barney was , by the sound of it , so desperately ill , Cara appeared to be making every effort to rise above the shocking news she had received less than an hour ago . |
| 3 | Mrs Hunt has said she can not understand why there was such a delay when an ambulance station is situated less than a mile from her home . |
| 4 | The gloomy assessment of Derry 's chances is based on the poorest goal scoring record of any team in the top six — City have averaged less than a goal game from 28 League outings . |
| 5 | ROLAND STADLER , Switzerland 's non-playing Davis Cup captain , has quit less than a month before the final against the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've done less than a third of the total distance , but the worst is over . |
| 7 | He has conceded less than a goal a game in his 249 Football League appearances . |
| 8 | The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels . |
| 9 | ‘ Charles the Fifth , who was born less than a thousand years ago ? … |
| 10 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 11 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 12 | After tossing and turning for another while , Amiss fell into a deep sleep from which he was woken less than an hour and a half later by his alarm clock . |
| 13 | Super-shy George Michael bought his Californian dream home for £3 million two years ago , but he 's spent less than a fortnight in the futuristic house . |
| 14 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 15 | Compelled less than a whiff of ghostly oxygen |
| 16 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 17 | According to this schedule a prosecutor would be appointed less than a month before the presidential elections of November 1992 . |
| 18 | They had gained less than a hundred yards . |
| 19 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 20 | Woil 's escape was over , and it had all taken less than a minute and a half . |
| 21 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 22 | The writ was issued less than a month after Mr Branson and his airline began libel proceedings of their own against BA and Lord King , its chairman . |
| 23 | Her thoughts drifted back to Spike , the metal man , who had been killed less than an hour ago . |
| 24 | The French Revolution had begun less than a hundred years before ; the Paris Commune was only nine years away . |
| 25 | The car chase had lasted less than a minute . |