Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they may all look dirty to you but this one has been used less and it therefore has less . |
| 2 | Her thoughts drifted back to Spike , the metal man , who had been killed less than an hour ago . |
| 3 | The ‘ city ’ he saw — which had been founded less than three years earlier — was little more than ‘ a chaotic jumble of sheds and mud huts ’ . |
| 4 | You saw her just now and you 've been engaged less than twenty-four hours ! |
| 5 | Direct files have been used less than might be expected in data processing . |