Example sentences of "less [conj] a [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 2 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 3 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 4 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 5 | Less than a quarter of contests ever reach the final , antler pushing stage , and even then the deer stag only pushes its opponent 's antlers rather than trying to spike his softer flanks ; antlers could perhaps be used more dangerously than they are . |
| 6 | Less than a quarter of Oxfordshire teachers believe that any important matters have been omitted from their report . |
| 7 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 8 | I S O Nine Thousand is nothing more , nothing less than a list of management activities that need more attention . |
| 9 | But victory ran true to racing 's adage ‘ there 's nothing like experience ’ because the winner was ridden by Pat Leech , who has ridden more than 150 winners , while the two market leaders were partnered by riders with less than a handful of winners between them . |
| 10 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 11 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 12 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 13 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 14 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 15 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |