Example sentences of "[conj] less [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the before-tax competitive share of labour is increased or decreased depends on whether the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour is greater or less than unity . |
| 2 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 3 | This should arguably supply a greater surface for bacteria than gravel — internal and external as the media is porous — and wo n't cost a great deal more or less than gravel . |
| 4 | The Minister was engaged in nothing more or less than casuistry . |
| 5 | It was nothing more nor less than propinquity . |
| 6 | Nevertheless liberalism succeeded in destroying the fueros and it was only after its triumph that conservative liberals challenged the maxim that ‘ centralization is neither more nor less than liberty itself ’ . |
| 7 | In admitting a highly promising but less than conformist Sheffield Grammar School boy to Gonville and Caius College , the university placed Keeton under the tutorship of one of the most astute and world-wise masters in the Law . |
| 8 | If over 5° , use bank , but less than Rate 1 angle for small heading changes . |