Example sentences of "less [adj] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 2 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 3 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 4 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 5 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |