Example sentences of "is [adv] less than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 2 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 3 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 4 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 5 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 6 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |