Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] less [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 2 | Wages average approximately 7 to 12 times less than the corresponding rates in the USA . |
| 3 | The merest traces of various gases exist at the surface of Mercury , amounting to about 10 12 times less than the mass of the Earth 's atmosphere and which can be entirely accounted for by capture from the solar wind and by the radioactive decay of certain isotopes in the surface materials . |
| 4 | Their average life expectancy was 12 years less than that of whites , their infant mortality rate twice that of whites . |
| 5 | Message from : At the present time we are 140 members less than we were in 1990 — this is solely due to a shortfall in the number of sponsored groups as several classes for the elderly in sheltered homes were closed due to the cut backs . |
| 6 | The DTI today pledged to dump the existing system which produces an injury total 100 times less than council statistics around 800 against 80,000 a year . |
| 7 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 8 | In theory , a wound ball with the maximum initial velocity allowable , 255 feet per second , at 65°F , will fly some 10 yards less than at the standard temperature . |
| 9 | Robinson says : ‘ We are playing on average 10 games less than when in Europe , and the fans are n't happy . ’ |
| 10 | ( v ) The prisoner is then informed of the date for the first review , and that this is three years less than the tariff if the first review is to be held less than 17 years before the date of his sentence . |
| 11 | In this case , the operative life is three years less than the number of years to maturity . |
| 12 | BRITISH farmers will harvest 22.4 million tons of cereals this year — 200,000 tons less than last year — a survey says . |
| 13 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 14 | They are some seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds less than is explicitly coming to us , either through the grant that 's coming into the S S A , the base , or the new specific grant . |
| 15 | I 've been and watched and contributed to some degree , erm or at least in listening to the reports of governors at the school , erm , in the allocation of some of their contracts , which of course include some being let under L M S and some being let under G M S , with regard to building and cleaning , they were very disappointed with the presentation that the D S O gave , and even though the D S O was eight thousand pounds less than the competing bidder , O C S , they gave the contract to O C S , and a report has had to be made to the district auditor to give their reasons . |
| 16 | Mr Kerry 's home has now been sold for over twenty thousand pounds less than he paid … |
| 17 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 18 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 19 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 20 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 21 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 22 | Radar observations yielded a radius for Mercury of 2439 km which has an observational uncertainty about 50 times less than earlier values . |
| 23 | Now duty rosters , trains , all the different trains that have got to be clean you see , and I was putting in ten minutes less than really would be required you see , and that saved er hours you see , saved hours . |
| 24 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 25 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 26 | The combination of these methods provides optimum cooking quality and shorter cooking times of up to five times less than conventional methods . |
| 27 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 28 | The next five months less than half a year af the next five months after that right ? |
| 29 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 30 | In terms of parliamentary representation , Labour — although receiving less votes than the Tories — became the largest single party ; the Tories had five seats less than Labour ; the Liberals , with their geographically diffuse support , were grossly ‘ under-represented ’ relative to their share of vote , having only fourteen seats ; while the Scottish Nationalists , benefiting from the concentration of their vote , increased their parliamentary contingent from one to seven . |