Example sentences of "less than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plants are tough perennials , less than a metre high . |
| 2 | They had built their usual untidy nests less than a metre apart on the steep ledges , and now in August each nest held a large , fluffy young gannet . |
| 3 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 4 | Jesus pushed himself off and floated rapidly around the Lift , bringing himself expertly to a stop less than a metre from the slight form of Christine LaFayette . |
| 5 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 6 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 7 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 8 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 9 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 10 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 11 | Gryschenko , from Kiev , married and with a child less than a year old , joined with all the team working long into the night at Hamble to prepare Fazisi 's bare hull for the race . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 13 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 14 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 15 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 16 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 17 | Some of the greens , sown only in the autumn that year , were described as near perfection less than a year later , although on balance it was accepted the course had to mature , the turf being described as a little scarce in places . |
| 18 | They elected Leeds United , formed shortly after the demise of City , to the Second Division in 1920 , less than a year later , a move popularly interpreted among supporters as gratitude . |
| 19 | The gregarious owls were juveniles less than a year old just coming into breeding condition , but unable to find a place to nest in the plantation . |
| 20 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 21 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 22 | It took the company less than a year to roll out their prototype DHC–2 — and it was a runaway success right from the start . |
| 23 | From a committed team of nine couples , less than a year later they have the encouragement of now seeing a hundred regularly worshipping together each week . |
| 24 | On July 14 , less than a year since his accident , he played in a one-day pro-am and won with a 68 . |
| 25 | But Marty had to learn his trade fast , since he began teaching guitar less than a year after starting to play himself ! |
| 26 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 27 | It was , after all , less than a year ago that he sold a substantial quantity of Amstrad shares . |
| 28 | Anyway , there was promotion in it : when we next come across him , less than a year later , he has risen to the giddy heights of master , taking over from William Cox . |
| 29 | The 20-year-old , a reserve team striker less than a year ago , is now a key man in Kevin Keegan 's all-conquering outfit . |
| 30 | All of this , it can surely be argued , flowed seamlessly from that fateful meeting between two black American sailors and a princely envoy from the Kyoto court in the harbour at Uraga , and by the handover of a letter written by a president who , less than a year later , would be languishing in Bukalo in the beginnings of what should be — by this reckoning alone — quite undeserved historical obscurity . |