Example sentences of "less [adj] than the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These affairs , she complained , were even less real than the last lot . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 3 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 4 | This is far less crude than the first example and propels the argument forward by its incorporation . |
| 5 | It was less acrimonious than the first time , but much more painful . |