Example sentences of "and [verb] less [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you now use a low compression ball and swing at 110 mph , you will compress it too much and realise less than 220 yards . |
| 2 | GERMANS worried about their image held a poll — and found less than 60 per cent of Europeans like them . |
| 3 | But the Radicals , the predominant party under the Third Republic suffered from being identified with the failures of the 1930s and attracted less than one vote in ten . |
| 4 | The idea for the COMDEX exhibition was born some sixteen years ago , featured 157 American companies and attracted less than 4,000 visitors . |
| 5 | They last from Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime and cost less than £60 ( fully inclusive , with overnight passes for the hostel ) . |
| 6 | According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World . |
| 7 | These two hotels are interconnected and lie less than ten minutes stroll from the resort centre . |
| 8 | The microphone is an electret insert type EM-4 or similar , and costs less than £1 . |
| 9 | New products for the UK market include the integrated accounting software package , Sterling +2 , which runs under MS-DOS and Windows and was launched in September 1992 ( CI No 2,015 ) — according to Goldman , it is ‘ selling like hot cakes ’ ; a new version of the high-end , high margin Sovereign offering for the mid-range market — although prices did not increase , total sales of the product rose 20% in real terms , which was important , Goldman said , as this market is much more valuable than Sterling 's ; and MoneyWise , which is targeted at the home and small business market and costs less than £50 . |
| 10 | In a Cox model , 2-year mortality was independently related to severe comorbidity ( relative risk [ RR ] =9.4 ) or moderate comorbidity ( RR=3.1 ) , and to haematocrit less than 35% ( RR=2.9 ) ( all p0.005 ) . |
| 11 | The NSDAP gained only 43 of the 72 seats and polled less than 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | It is one of the smallest cetaceans — adults may be less than 1.3 metres ( 4.2 feet ) long and weigh less than 30 kg ( 66 lb ) . |
| 13 | The council provides subsidies as long as companies are based in Durham district and employ less than 100 people in a manufacturing or service industry closely linked to the manufacturing sector . |
| 14 | At worst it has unjustly built expectations of a return to mass employment ; put money into the pocket of large consultancy firms ; served the objectives of narrow sectional interests ; undermined physical and administrative planning ; substituted ACE and private contract jobs for public sector jobs ; been irrelevant to the needs of women ; been virtually unaccountable ; and invested less than one tenth of the money it took to de-nationalise Shorts and Harlands , even had the programme 's money been additional . |
| 15 | Brian Faulkner , having lost control of the Unionist Party , had formed the new Unionist Party of Northern Ireland which could only field two candidates and won less than three per cent of the poll . |
| 16 | The 1991/92 annual report of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that it prosecuted and won less than 2 per cent of cases of river pollution reported during the period . |
| 17 | The first serious attempt to facilitate the electronic transfer of bill of lading rights took place in 1986 and lasted less than one year . |
| 18 | Conventional trading links have been even weaker : between 1975 and 1978 Latin America supplied barely 1 per cent of Soviet imports and absorbed less than one quarter per cent of Soviet exports . |
| 19 | These new lamps last five times longer and need less than 20 per cent of the power used by an ordinary light bulb . |
| 20 | β cell function and insulin sensitivity are expressed as centile groups defined relative to a non-diabetic population aged below 35 years and weighing less than 115% of ideal weight . |