Example sentences of "far less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital law is much more complicated — but far less lucrative — than ‘ ordinary ’ criminal law , so attorneys not specialise in defence work and are reluctant to take cases . |
| 2 | In contrast , the restaurant manager is far less easy to define . |
| 3 | These make it far less likely that they will dive vertically for hundreds of feet if the pilot pushes forwards on the stick . |
| 4 | They cited the Joint Declaration 's promise of ‘ a legislature constituted by elections ’ , and warned that without democracy , the autocratic machinery of colonial government might prove far less benign in China 's hands . |
| 5 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the peninsula is remote — there are deep sea lochs on either side , Loch Nevis ( meaning Heaven ) to the south has a mild protected climate , Loch Hourn ( meaning Hell ) to the north is far less hospitable . |
| 7 | England face a far less forbidding task than in 1973 , when defeat on the same Chorzow ground by a gifted , combative Poland signalled the beginning of the end for Sir Alf Ramsey . |
| 8 | Today many brands are sold commercially for far less . |
| 9 | This was far less dramatic than in a much larger city like Petrograd . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1980s , partly as a result of deliberate government action , more perhaps because the unduly optimistic assumptions of Beveridge and other founders of the British welfare system were being falsified by financial and cultural factors ( such as the breakdown of the old nuclear family of fabled tradition ) , the welfare state was far less able to temper the asperities of a harsh and divided society . |
| 11 | Her son Edward VII , though he knew far less about clergymen than his mother , continued the same trenchancy . |
| 12 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 13 | Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work . |
| 14 | Clearly they are easier ‘ laboratories ’ to reach , and far less dangerous than the poles with regard to climate and the hazards of survival . |
| 15 | Such a circumstance is far less likely to arise if defective slating is replaced either with a new natural slate roof or a surface of one of the several types of lightweight synthetic slate that are now obtainable . |
| 16 | For distance you must now substitute that very special , and far less abstract , sort of distance which we call height : height which speaks immediately to our muscles and nerves . |
| 17 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 18 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 19 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 20 | But with non-food shops , the picture is far less clear . |
| 21 | These ladies deserve careful listening , but there are patches , as on Nocturne , where the music is far less interesting than the well-written and atmospheric lyrics . |
| 22 | And although home ownership has proved a profitable investment during most of the decade , with house prices rising by an average of around 12 per cent , it looks far less so now . |
| 23 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 24 | Dolphins breathe far less frequently than humans , and compensate by taking deeper breaths and extracting more oxygen from the air they do take in . |
| 25 | Though far less profitable , Corning 's kitchenware business encompasses the brand names — Pyrex , Corning Ware , Visions , Corelle — which have made the company , and the company town of Corning in upstate New York , world famous . |
| 26 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 27 | In almost all countries , state-owned enterprises are far less efficient than their private counterparts ; governments , shielded from market pressures , are often careless and profligate investors . |
| 28 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 29 | Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family . |
| 30 | But a cut of ten times that amount in the whole world 's output of carbon dioxide , shared among all countries , would not only cost Britain far less : it would bring bigger benefits in climate stability . |