Example sentences of "[noun prp] be less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will have to be a crash course as the Rugby World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield are less than five weeks away . |
| 2 | Pont Royal is conveniently accessible for the long weekend away : the flight time from Heathrow to Marseilles is less than two hours , with the resort only half an hour from the airport . |
| 3 | Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric . |
| 4 | Branson was less than enthusiastic . |
| 5 | Frau Fegel was less than enthusiastic . |
| 6 | Although Falmouth was less than half-a-mile away there was a curious feeling of isolation . |
| 7 | Unlike C. R. Ashbee [ q.v. ] and other confrères within the guild-revival movement , Mackmurdo was less than generous in acknowledging the contributions of others . |
| 8 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 9 | Ramsay was less than delighted with the task , but consoled himself with the thought that at least the journey south would take them by Dunbar Castle again , and a call thereat would be possible . |
| 10 | A new report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food estimates that the average intake of dioxins in the gut in the UK is less than one quarter of the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) Tolerable Daily Intake ( TDI ) . |
| 11 | It has a couple of shops , bars and cafés but Malcesine is less than eight miles away , easily reached by local bus . |
| 12 | When the socialist Francisco Largo Caballero became Prime Minister and Minister for War on 4 September 1936 , the Army of Africa was less than 100 kilometres away from Madrid , advancing rapidly from the south-west . |
| 13 | Oil pollution in the waters around Bahrain was less than before the war , the team reported , apparently as a result of reduced tanker traffic during the seven-month conflict . |
| 14 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 15 | As Chris Llewellyn Smith , who takes over as director at CERN next year , points out , the unstarted LHC is less than $3 billion from completion all told , while the SSC , despite being $2 billion in the hole , still has $8 billion to go . |
| 16 | Nixon was less than eighteen months from becoming President of the United States , but when he was received by Ceauşescu he was very much a political has-been . |
| 17 | But Lady Campbell was less than happy . |
| 18 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 19 | The absolute loss of population from the cores of Greater London , Greater Manchester and Merseyside was less than in the previous decade , but population growth is now firmly identified with smaller towns and accessible settlements in the countryside . |
| 20 | If you do n't expect much from little Tommy then , little Tommy is less and less likely to give you anything much ! |
| 21 | And Belfield is less than 20 minutes frequent bus service to the city centre . |
| 22 | The response of Conservatives who followed colonial affairs in Britain was less than friendly to the NLM ; one article asserted : ‘ It is not by breakaway and territorial fragmentation that opponents of a government in power should seek to get their way but by fighting the government as a nation-wide party and finally throwing it out . ’ |
| 23 | Though Oxford was less than thirty miles from Swindon , Harry had been there only twice before . |
| 24 | The impression was of some sparsely populated , unchanging landscape ; it was hard to realise that Birmingham was less than thirty miles away . |
| 25 | Nigel Mansell was less than complimentary about Alain Prost during a 20-minute documentary broadcast nationwide in Australia . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's true to say that Linford was less than overjoyed ! |
| 27 | But Baroness Thatcher was less than talkative away from the podium … |
| 28 | And Harold Brookes Baker , editor of Burke 's Peerage said : ‘ It is perfectly clear that Charles and Diana are less and less comfortable in each other 's company . |
| 29 | About the opportunity , Greg was less than happy : if the fire , designed to cover up the murder ( which it so successfully had ) , was started in the attic , could Viola have done it ? |
| 30 | The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted . |