Example sentences of "be much less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer .
2 The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location .
3 In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position .
4 For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth .
5 This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb .
6 Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically .
7 Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty .
8 So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) .
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