Example sentences of "[verb] much less than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second map ( figure 5.14 ) shows the geography of the Department of Defense 's spending on salaries ( for civilians and service personnel together ) , and indicates that the great majority of the southern States ( with the exceptions of Louisiana and Arkansas ) were substantial beneficiaries , whereas northeastern States got much less than the national average per capita expenditure in this category . |
| 2 | Although most fat people simply eat too much by normal standards , there are many who are equally gluttonous but remain thin , and some fat people remain fat in spite of eating much less than normal . |
| 3 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 4 | If you 're lucky you 'll find period curtains costing much less than new . |
| 5 | At Brêtigny , on 8 May 1360 , a treaty was concluded under which Edward was to receive much less than had been envisaged in the Treaty of London . |
| 6 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 7 | They are run by DHAs and in general cost much less than those run by the Health Visitors ' Association . |
| 8 | Admittedly North Americans have done much less than we should in our management of free enterprise communication . |
| 9 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 10 | Gliding costs much less than flying powered aircraft . |
| 11 | When the king 's agents bought the wool it fetched much less than the expected price and the scheme collapsed , leaving resentment amongst the producers , the lesser merchants who had not participated in the scheme , and those who had been paid in Dordrecht Bonds . |
| 12 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 13 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 14 | Currently , each of the MDOs has a similar subscription structure : dentists pay less than doctors , some non-clinical staff pay much less than clinicians , and junior doctors pay on a sliding scale reaching the full rate after 7 years . |
| 15 | But for individuals like Arnold Leese intellectual consistency mattered much less than his hatred of the Jews . |
| 16 | In fact , at 190 grams , this headset weighs much less than the traditional line of Stax units . |
| 17 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 18 | On certain days the cats suddenly decide to eat much less than usual . |
| 19 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
| 20 | Planned pregnancies have declined much less than unplanned ones , especially in higher order births in Britain and in the USA ( Westoff and Ryder 1977 ) . |
| 21 | First of all th the erm registration went up , then something else went up and then two of his children from farthest away were moving so he was gon na be paid much less than that . |
| 22 | We now have much less than our minimum protection threshold . |