Sentence examples for gone for less from inspiring English sources

Officers, including his predecessor, have gone for less.

The man who bestrode the region's troubled politics for decades has been gone for less than a month, and already the place feels different.

All this on a sliver of land — little more than a 32-mile-long sandbar, really, between Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean — where just a few years ago bargain hunters could find fixer-uppers selling for $350,000 and where even a beachfront home with sweeping views of the ocean might have gone for less than $1.5 million.

And yet it appears that very guitar has gone for less than hoped for at an auction in the British capital on Thursday, fetching just over 280,000 pounds ($493,638).

President Theodore Roosevelt made some 160 appointments in 1903 when Congress was gone for less than a day, and the Truman administration made one appointment in 1949 when the Senate was gone for two days, the report said.

Basic versions go for less than $10.

These now go for less than FFr150.

Sprawling plates of pasta go for less than $10.

(The suggested retail is £629.99: it goes for less).

Yet going for less than the best makes no sense.

Offered for sale in 2009 for $300,000, it could end up going for less.