Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned .
2 But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ?
3 ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse .
4 Less than a quarter of pre-school children have nursery places .
5 Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement .
6 In countries of labour shortage , undeveloped social hierarchy and a truculent and democratic working population , things might be different ; but in Britain and Germany , France and the Habsburg Empire , unlike Australia or the United States , the suitable maximum for the labouring class was a sufficiency of good decent food ( preferably with less than a sufficiency of strong drink ) , a modestly crowded dwelling , and clothing adequate to protect morals , health and comfort without risking improper emulation of the costume of their betters .
7 But this Subject had n't lost him by accident : she had brushed him off within minutes in less than a quarter-mile of straight well-lit street .
8 Championship at Hillside , he holed his final putt of less than an inch in snooker-fashion with the grip-end of his putter .
9 Less than an hour of BAD-style promo fun brings us excerpts from Nic Roeg and The Cotton Club , steals from James Bond and Sergio Leone , plus a rumble on the Westway directed by Jim Jarmusch .
10 As was said in the introductory section , it is not feasible for the government to direct the firm to produce specific quantities at specific prices because the government necessarily knows less than the firm about underlying demand and cost conditions .
11 I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales .
12 This battle , which is still raging , is no less than the fight between good and evil : the war between God and the Devil .
13 Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care .
14 The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed .
15 The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) .
16 per annum less than the average for English non-metropolitan forces .
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