Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 2 | I S O Nine Thousand is nothing more , nothing less than a list of management activities that need more attention . |
| 3 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The advent of twentieth-century mass propaganda technologies and techniques — heralded in the Great War , developed subsequently in totalitarian regimes ( the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany ) — no less than the development of sound broadcasting in France , led Parliament , after much hesitation , to vote the law of 1923 . |
| 8 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |
| 9 | Secondly , the range of birth weights is less than the range of infant weights , and head circumference and length at birth are known to be inaccurate measurements . |
| 10 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 11 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 12 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 13 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
| 14 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 16 | That 's why I 'm submitting a budget that holds the growth in spending to less than the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation . |
| 18 | No , but they were n't for them , cos they , does n't really matter , they 've got so much pocket out of gas But the Gas is erm , make them increase prices at five per cent less than the rate of inflation that way . |
| 19 | Groundwater flows down-slope towards the river channel , but the rate of groundwater flow is less than the rate of throughflow or of overland flow . |
| 20 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 21 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 22 | Nothing less than the future of Mankind is at stake ! |
| 23 | If now the liquid is brought into contact with the solid , so as to wet it , then the energy of the interface between the solid and the liquid will be less than the sum of surface energies of the two surfaces when they are in contact with air . |
| 24 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 25 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 26 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 27 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 28 | The condition that the mean lifetime wealth converges is that , which requires in effect that the intrinsic growth of capital ( ) should be less than the growth of population . |
| 29 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |