Example sentences of "[adv] much less [subord] " in BNC.

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1 To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds .
2 The air pressure against the side walls is generally much less than p s and except near the back of the cylinder is small compared with the axial stress .
3 what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 …
4 After all , a large fast reactor could cost not much less than £2000 million to build .
5 Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss .
6 Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men .
7 The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs .
8 The paper showed that in session 1986/87 these centres made up much less than one percent of both candidate enrolments and module registrations .
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