Example sentences of "[v-ing] less [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misgivings had been expressed by many deputies , however , principally about allowing less than two weeks for preparation and discussion of such an important piece of legislation . |
| 2 | This meal has been shown to be totally absorbed producing less than 20 parts per million ( ppm ) of peak breath H 2 concentration , when consumed by normal volunteers . |
| 3 | Administrative costs in the NHS were traditionally low , representing less than 10 per cent in the UK compared to more than 20 per cent in the USA . |
| 4 | Numbering less than 6000 souls , the Nez Perce roamed a traditional Plateau homeland of some 27,000 square miles , spanning western Idaho , south-eastern Washington , and north-eastern Oregon . |
| 5 | In 1990 the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) guidelines suggested that only 15–20 per cent of our food energy intake should be derived from fat , with saturated fats contributing less than 10 per cent . |
| 6 | The consequences and disadvantages of a bidder acquiring less than 100 per cent of the target are explained in para 9.1.2 below and Appendix 2 . |
| 7 | To put this data into perspective , of the 25 million workers in firms employing less than 100 only 5.4 per cent belong to a union . |
| 8 | Firms employing less than 100 people have higher death and injury rates than bigger ones . |
| 9 | As a direct funding advantage to smaller companies , the SMART and SPUR schemes will continue , and SPUR will be further limited to companies employing less than 250 employees ( as opposed to 500 ) . |
| 10 | Between 1975 and 1980 the share of firms employing less than 300 workers in total bankruptcy debts rose from 75 to over 90 per cent . |
| 11 | As elsewhere the impact of this assistance is difficult to assess , but state loans in Japan form approximately 12 per cent of outstanding loans to firms employing less than 300 workers . |
| 12 | Fifteen hundred establishments were surveyed , ranging in size from employing less than 25 to more than 500 , and spanning lo sectors of the Revised Standard Classification of Industry . |
| 13 | In recent years , due mainly to the vast market for model off-road vehicles , the price of these servos has tumbled , with a good quality servo now costing less than ten pounds . |
| 14 | It 's cash only for all trips costing less than twenty-five pounds , of course . |
| 15 | The Smiths , between grabbing valuable demo time from interested companies , found themselves , in the long hot summer of '83 , in the centre of a whirlwind of ideas all blossoming from the seeds of that initial Marr and Morrissey meeting less than one year earlier . |
| 16 | But its chase is brief , averaging less than 200 yards , and if it fails to catch its prey within this short dash it gives up . |
| 17 | But taking the objective Macdonald view in this first season back in the Premier Division , survival was his first concern for Airdrie , the avoidance of relegation for a club which in realistic terms has no money to buy quality players , crowds averaging less than 5,000 and a creaking , obsolute stadium . |
| 18 | In June 1990 Gen. Chaovalit , the former Army C.-in-C. , had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister after serving less than three months in the Cabinet [ see p. 37532 ] . |
| 19 | SWINDLING Baroness Cecilia de Stempel slipped out of jail early yesterday after serving less than 2 1/2 years of her seven-year sentence for cheating her aged aunt out of her fortune . |
| 20 | The attack occurred one day after three members of a Jewish guerrilla group , the Jewish Underground , had been released from prison after serving less than seven years of life sentences for murdering Palestinians [ see also pp. 33190-91 ; 34010 ] . |
| 21 | However , the agrarian reform followed a March 1959 Rent Law which greatly dismayed property owners by introducing statutory reductions of 50 per cent for the very poorest tenants ( those paying less than 100 pesos per month ) and 40–30 per cent decreases for those in higher income brackets . |
| 22 | In some counties , the land tax was relatively lightly assessed ; in Cumberland and Westmorland , for example , landowners might have been paying less than 5 per cent of the true value of their rents . |
| 23 | proofs of entries occupying less than three columns of dictionary text may be obtained within ten minutes |
| 24 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 25 | It is not uncommon in the United Kingdom today for a seat to be won by a candidate who secures less than 40 per cent of the vote , and for a government to be formed by a party securing less than 40 per cent of votes cast overall . |
| 26 | The heart of this new technology is , of course , a small chip of silicon , measuring less than 10 mm. square , containing extremely complex electronic circuitry which can be used either as the central processing unit or the memory of a computer . |
| 27 | The rationale for the move , which was ardently opposed by the NIH 's management , was that arthritis was a victim of budgetary neglect — getting less than 70 million clearly identifiable dollars out of the NIH 's $4000 million mission for the year . |
| 28 | When are we going to meet the needs of those areas for jobs and not have these things where we 're getting less than twenty percent job replacement through g regeneration . |
| 29 | Parties polling less than 4 per cent of the vote would not gain representation through the county lists . |
| 30 | Liverpool , however , even by 1986–7 was allocating less than 20 per cent to economic projects , although the equivalent figure for Newcastle — Gateshead stood at 43 per cent . |