Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 2 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 3 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 4 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 5 | This was not an uncommon state of affairs : less than a quarter of a mile away , at St Augustine 's , a similarly tense situation was working towards a violent conclusion . |
| 6 | Europeans were divided in 1880 into states as small as Montenegro , with less than a quarter of a million inhabitants , and as large as Russia , with between 90 and 100 million . |
| 7 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 8 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 9 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 10 | Wo wo , it 's less than the price of a cup of tea . |
| 11 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 12 | In this latter case the incremental costs of extra memory and software development is likely to be less than the price of a separate hardware controller . |
| 13 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 14 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that the gap between the read/write heads and the hard disk platter is less than the size of a single smoke particle , it is sensible to declare the computer work area a no-smoking zone . |
| 16 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 17 | People pay 13p a week towards the cost of a sight test every two years — less than the cost of a second-class stamp . |
| 18 | One might think that such an ambition — no less than the forging of a cultural revolution — is most unconservative . |
| 19 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 20 | The European Political Community was not to be just a third community , but nothing less than the beginning of a comprehensive federation to which the ECSC and EDC would be subordinated . |
| 21 | Nothing less than the aim of a full conglomeration of the living and working conditions of all European Community citizens — who will remain patriotic citizens of their own member states — will satisfy most citizens and electors in the various countries as their own national elections occur and as the European Parliament elections occur . |
| 22 | Pool intends nothing less than the creation of a universe . |
| 23 | Ultimately , Acts offers a more or less reliable historical account of Paul 's dispute with the Nazarean Party , which would culminate in nothing less than the creation of an entirely new religion . |