Example sentences of "[verb] for less [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
2 | Yet foreign banks still account for less than 3% of Italian banking assets . |
3 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
4 | Meanwhile , LIFFE still trades derivatives in US T-bonds and eurodollars , but these account for less than 5 per cent of the exchange 's total business . |
5 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
6 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
7 | This competition is open to anyone who has been trading for less than three years ( ie since May 1989 ) . |
8 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
9 | If you order this program along with NEOPAINT , our professional paint package ( Code : 10460 ) you would have all your DTP problems solved for less than 100.00 for the registered versions . |
10 | Example — a vessel insured for $1,500 and following a major casualty it becomes clear that it can not be repaired for less than $1,700 . |
11 | The time required for an eye movement is approximately 150 msecs , and so if the stimulus is presented for less than 150 msecs we can be certain that the image is projected only to one hemisphere directly . |
12 | The time required for an eye movement is approximately 150 msecs , and so if the stimulus is presented for less than 150 msecs we can be certain that the image is projected only to one hemisphere directly . |
13 | The OFT will look at why a cartridge which trade sources say can be made for less than £10 can cost up to £65 . |
14 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
15 | If the tenancy was granted for less than seven years , the landlord is , by law , responsible for the repair of the structure and exterior of the dwelling and for keeping in repair and proper working order any basins , sinks , baths , and other sanitary installations , and any installations for supplying gas , water , electricity , for heating water , and for space heating . |
16 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
17 | Village fetes , car boot sales and occasional markets are exempt because they are used for less than five days in any five consecutive weeks . |
18 | Heavier caring responsibilities were clearly associated with lower rates of employment ; only about one-fifth of working-age women providing more than fifty hours a week care for an elderly person were employed , compared with two-thirds of married women and half of all single ( never-married ) women caring for less than twenty hours a week ( McLaughlin , 1989 ) . |
19 | These are usually available or can be bought for less than £5 from opticians . |
20 | Government bonds will not usually be issued at par ; each £100 nominal value of stock will usually be sold for less than £100 . |
21 | It 's been home to generations of intrepid time lords , and wo n't be sold for less than fifteen thousand pounds . |
22 | For small issues placings tend to be cheaper and faster than offers for sale , ( about 11 ½ per cent of the funds raised for less than £5m as opposed to 14 per cent for offers for sale ) largely as a result of savings in advertising and preparing an offer document , and because of underwriting costs in offers for sale at about 2 per cent of funds raised . |
23 | In El Salvador , about half the active agricultural population are employed for less than six months of the year ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
24 | Had he worked part-time as a traffic clerk or been employed for less than two years by Humberside Heavy Haulage , Peter would not have been entitled to a redundancy payment . |
25 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
26 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
27 | Rape , for example , accounts for less than 1.5 per cent . |
28 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
29 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
30 | A ‘ Gray 's Anatomy ’ of the 1920s may well be found for less than £5 . |