Example sentences of "[num] [adv] less [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " At the beginning of 1881 no less than 84.7 per cent of former serfs had become owners of their allotments " . |
| 2 | By 1826 no less than ten newspaper presses were using Applegath & Cowper printing machines . |
| 3 | Between 936 and 1531 no less than thirty-two kings and emperors were crowned in Aachen . |
| 4 | This was a portent of future events , and for the Coronation of 1902 no less than twenty-five trams were decorated ( see p. 38 ) , illuminations being added in the evening while the cars were in service . |
| 5 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 6 | The jails were filled and the press muzzled : between April and December 1930 no less than ten ordinances were issued to meet the emergency — the greatest such number that any viceroy had ever promulgated . |
| 7 | Similar courses were provided for Hoffman Manufacturing Company , Chelmsford , from spring 1957 and for English Electric at Stevenage from autumn 1958 ; by the end of 1961 no less than eight firms were on the list , among them De Havilland , Imperial Chemical Industries and International Computers and Tabulators . |
| 8 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects . |