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Example sentences for "less than"

  • In less than an hour after the time of the raid the three rangers, heavily armed and superbly mounted on fresh horses, rode out on the trail.

  • In less than a moment Belding was bellowing for his rangers.

  • Peterkin also went to the plum-tree for the purpose of making a special onslaught upon the hogs, and killed no less than six of them.

  • Our breakfast was also despatched without loss of time, and in less than an hour afterwards all our preparations for the journey were completed.

  • Thomson while I was there--by no less than 93 feet.

  • He could do no less than ask Tom up; and Tom could do no less than go up.

  • If a thunderbolt had fallen on me,' said the father, 'it would have shocked me less than this!

  • Could she, who had been so active in the getting up of the funeral triumph, do less than exult?

  • Upon no other terms, indeed, can a democracy exist, for in no imaginable future state will individuals cease to disagree with one another upon something less than half of all the problems of life.

  • I reached New York Tuesday morning, having completed the journey in less than twenty-four hours.

  • Less than a month after the weary emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major General Oliver O.

  • In the midst of all my joys, in less than half an hour after my soul was set at liberty, the Lord discovered to me my labor in the ministry and call to preach the gospel.

  • I threw the accustomed handful of the holy soil upon his patient face, and then, and in less than a minute, the earth closed coldly round him.

  • He spared neither sex nor age; the dead and dying were immediately removed from the field of slaughter, and in less than an hour, I think, they were brought on the table, deeply buried in mounds of snowy rice.

  • Less than a fortnight after he had taken me from the asylum, he drew up a will, in which he adopted me and made me his sole legatee.

  • In less than a month Mademoiselle Marguerite will be the Marquise de Valorsay, and I shall have a hundred thousand francs a year again.

  • It has already embroiled me in a difficulty with that fool of a Rochecote, with whom I shall have to fight in less than a couple of hours.

  • In less than a second, a thousand strange and contradictory suppositions darted through his brain.

  • Then he gave a cry of alarm, and together we swung the raft to the left, avoiding the right bank of the curve by less than a foot.

  • We did so, and found ourselves in an apartment no less than royal.

  • Of these engravings no less than thirty-four were devoted to the Deluge alone.

  • Since Gryphon had forestalled, in the debate, What they should all have done against those eight; CV And, for such little time endured the play, Less than an hour sufficed to finish all.

  • It was only whispered, for something unutter- ably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios.

  • It is the first time that I have ever seen one done in less than half an hour.

  • Every man who had a post of duty was instantly at it; and in less than half an hour the British man-of-war Scarabaeus, which had been lying at anchor a short distance outside the harbour, came steaming out to meet the enemy.

  • The day for argument upon the exciting question had been a long weary one, and it had gone by in less than a week the great shout of the people was answered by a declaration of war against Great Britain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    directing them; discovered that; face downwards; iron filings; last moments; less closely; less completely; less considerable; less conspicuous; less curved; less dangerous; less degree; less depressed; less elongated; less extensive; less frequent; less importance; less irregular; less number; less regular; less sterile; less time; less true; political questions; real earnest; sixteen miles