Example sentences of "getting less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposition in front of us is getting less and less as we advance . |
| 2 | Of twenty-four professionals retained by Lancashire in 1899 , seventeen were paid £3 a week as a basic wage during the season with the remainder getting less . |
| 3 | But it appears to be getting less so , if government figures are to be believed . |
| 4 | ‘ Also , a lot of the big names are getting less advertising work , and they are more prepared now to do editorial , which does mean more competition ’ . |
| 5 | So , one reason for getting less plural continuations with ( 10 ) might be that the proper name serves as a strong cue for treating the named character as special and separate from other individuals . |
| 6 | The rationale for the move , which was ardently opposed by the NIH 's management , was that arthritis was a victim of budgetary neglect — getting less than 70 million clearly identifiable dollars out of the NIH 's $4000 million mission for the year . |
| 7 | If it does n't , then it 's hard to imagine the hundred-strong UK allocation racing ready buyers for on paper , it 's difficult to escape the conclusion that you 're paying more and getting less . |
| 8 | They 're already getting less foreign currency since the £ was floated . |
| 9 | Instead , if the Advocate General prevails , men may find themselves getting less so that women can get more . |
| 10 | The United States has global interests , and keeping the present far-from-stable nuclear balance in the world from getting less stable still is one of them . |
| 11 | It 's getting less arcadian by the hour . |
| 12 | Yet this great growth and the consequent diminution of the size of holdings until a ‘ large ’ farm was two acres , meant that labour was getting less productive — a phenomenon reflected in the huge difference in price between land with and land without vacant possession . |
| 13 | So the value is getting less and less and less . |
| 14 | the fraction 's getting smaller and smaller the piece you get is getting less and less . |
| 15 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 16 | ‘ The cost of nappies and formula milk each week alone amazed me , although it 's getting less now that Rachel 's going on solids . |
| 17 | Red Star parcels are still handled at Aberystwyth and Machynlleth , but even the staple Surridge Dawson newspaper/magazine traffic by rail is getting less . |
| 18 | With each minute that passed he was getting less and less extraterrestrial . |
| 19 | " It works in an area where I was getting less and less interested-the theatre . |
| 20 | Thus if more bonds and fewer Treasury bills were issued , the banks could still obtain the same amount of bills as before ( by paying a higher price ) , with other buyers getting less . |
| 21 | When are we going to meet the needs of those areas for jobs and not have these things where we 're getting less than twenty percent job replacement through g regeneration . |
| 22 | Yes unfortunately though it 's getting less likely that anyone can rely on that . |
| 23 | yeah , the thing is , the people that are paying it , we 're paying more than we 've ever paid before and we 're getting less back |
| 24 | Well it 's getting less . |