Example sentences of "much less [subord] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
| 2 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 3 | No other species assemblages have such a disproportion , and for the most part the numbers of digested in situ incisors are either the same as or much less than the numbers of isolated incisors . |
| 4 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 9 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |