Example sentences of "less [subord] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smear test takes less than five minutes and normally only causes slight discomfort . |
| 2 | Roslyn Junior School is a large , square building less than five minutes walk away from his home . |
| 3 | This is the brief article ( less than five printed pages ) which originally appeared in Poetry for February 1918 , under the title , ‘ The Hard and Soft in French Poetry ’ . |
| 4 | The issue will complete the transformation of the Postbank , which is the world 's largest postal savings bank , from a sleepy adjunct to the Dutch post office , which it was less than five years ago , to an international banking force . |
| 5 | The ride will take the top competitors less than five hours , but the race will still not be over , as there is still a full marathon to be run . |
| 6 | Tsaritsyn was linked with Kursk and Voronezh , Saratov with Kursk and Voronezh again , and also with Tambov and Orël while Samara was allied with no less than five other gubernii . |
| 7 | I have probably discussed it less than five times in twelve years with the straits . |
| 8 | With an established , respected management company it is unlikely that any band would secure an agreement for less than five years . |
| 9 | Later in the day it will take less than five minutes simultaneously to drop the Whole group , with their stores , into Safra from fifteen C-130 Hercules aircraft . |
| 10 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 11 | In that year , the Scots were assailed by no less than five tracts extolling the benefits of union , including one by Somerset himself , the Epistle or exhortacion to uniti & peace to the inhabitauntes of Scotland . |
| 12 | They also broke Gloucester 's hearts , because with rather less than five minutes of extra time to go , the home side were leading 18–15 . |
| 13 | North Cornwall : key Cornish seat , where swing of less than five per cent would unseat Sir Gerry Neale , who helped to run Mrs Thatcher 's unsuccessful campaign to remain party leader . |
| 14 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 15 | Seventy-seven per cent of officers in the sample had ten years or more service to their credit ; some 50 per cent of social work practitioners had less than five years experience . |
| 16 | The number of visits was strongly related to the number of visitors : of those with less than five visitors , a quarter had a hundred or more visits , but this proportion was three-quarters for those with five or more visitors . |
| 17 | Swimming : No less than five pools — the main one for swimmers , one for diving , one for children and a paddling pool , plus the waterslide ! |
| 18 | From the 180 TEU Annika , there has been no less than five different vessels involved in servicing this route , each one providing a larger carrying capacity than its predecessor . |
| 19 | Less than five minutes : |
| 20 | Well , it 's only a short distance , I know — you could have done it in less than five minutes in the daylight — but we wo n't see eleven o'clock again . |
| 21 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 22 | Investments : For Albion Bank this primarily represents funds invested in British Government stocks ( loans to the government ) , most of which will have less than five years to maturity , i.e. repayment . |
| 23 | At that time , Butcher Row really was Butcher Row for it had no less than five , plus a fishmonger and a poulterer . |
| 24 | No less than five of them , men like Robinson and Locke , had also been members of parliament . |
| 25 | Lincoln Brower has shown that birds learn to avoid aposematic prey after very few ‘ trials ’ ( usually less than five ) , while Mariam Rothschild at Cambridge University has produced clear evidence that birds remember for many months to associate particular colour patterns in prey , with distasteful experiences . |
| 26 | Gilliland based his study on no less than five sets of data , including the old records from the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the correction for systematic observing errors , similar measurements with a meridian circle from the US Naval Observatory in Washington , two sets of Mercury-transit observations , and the solar eclipse data . |
| 27 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 28 | WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations . |
| 29 | The ‘ Collection ’ also features no less than five ‘ live ’ tracks from Hancock 's early '80s and primarily acoustic quartet featuring rising trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and once more Carter and Williams . |
| 30 | The smear test takes less than five minutes and normally only causes slight discomfort . |