Example sentences of "have [verb] less than " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Bowman , the chief executive of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , has resigned less than two years into his five-year contract . |
| 2 | A European Community fund , set up effectively to bribe boat people to go and Hanoi to take them back , has secured less than half the £80 million it needs . |
| 3 | With the crowd pleading for more it was a far cry from the wastelands of the south-west where Mr. Baker has met less than rapturous welcomes in the past . |
| 4 | ROLAND STADLER , Switzerland 's non-playing Davis Cup captain , has quit less than a month before the final against the United States . |
| 5 | He has conceded less than a goal a game in his 249 Football League appearances . |
| 6 | Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $48.5m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston . |
| 7 | He continued : ‘ It is perhaps encouraging that Scotland has suffered less than most regions , however , although the average fraud perpetrated in Scotland tends to be smaller than in some regions , the impact on Scottish businesses can be just as damaging . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Chance argued that a sustainable UK coal industry needs the financial support of opencast coal , which last year alone produced a profit of £171 million for the British Coal Corporation and , over the past 50 years , has contributed less than £3.7 billion in profits . |
| 9 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 10 | As a practical training method , however , the approach has proved less than popular on account of the threats posed to individuals by the exposure of their beliefs , attitudes and feelings to people with whom they have to work . |
| 11 | The Peter Walwyn , trained son of star stallion Nureyev cost £500,000 as a yearling and , so far , has returned less than £1,500 of that enormous investment to his owner Hamdan AlMaktoum . |
| 12 | Later in the week , the training officer put asterisks against the names of trainees who 'd achieved less than £2,000 worth of business through the whole week . |
| 13 | It has also been suggested that the field is a remnant of a time when Mercury had suffered less tidal slowing of its axial spin , at which time the core was molten , Mercury having cooled less than today . |
| 14 | Having won less than 20 per cent of the vote in the recent polls , the Socialists will have difficulty in finding partners within the National Assembly to help them pass legislation . |
| 15 | But the staffing budget is cash limited , and some practices may have to accept less than 70% reimbursement if their application is successful . |
| 16 | The slick programmes and vast fees may have contributed less than is apparent to those outside government , who can not see how policy conclusions are actually reached . |
| 17 | Nickel cadmium batteries can be recharged up to 1000 times , at which point they will have cost less than one pence per cycle , including the electricity used . |
| 18 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 19 | We could hardly have achieved less than the Community 's observers . |
| 20 | Each of the bombs is believed to have contained less than 1lb of explosive but caused panic and paralysed Central London . |
| 21 | In Orthodox Europe , mass religion seems to have decayed less than in the west . |
| 22 | Ordnance is believed to have paid less than £10m to buy British Manufacture and Research from Cork Gully , the Astra receivers . |
| 23 | Knowing her sister well , Fabia could only marvel then that when Barney was , by the sound of it , so desperately ill , Cara appeared to be making every effort to rise above the shocking news she had received less than an hour ago . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've done less than a third of the total distance , but the worst is over . |
| 25 | Mr Ted Hartill , the City of London surveyor , said post-war buildings had suffered less than older buildings . |
| 26 | If human death is a measure of suffering , then David Damiani would surely have agreed that he had suffered less than Shlomo Green . |
| 27 | The provisions were all jumbled together , and she could see at once that three of the eggs were smashed ; but , on the whole , the basket had suffered less than she had herself . |
| 28 | They had suffered less than the other armies from the evil weather up to then , but in the days that followed Wales and September did their worst , and it was difficult to keep open their lengthening supply lines . |
| 29 | Prior to 1917 most Belorussian peasant farms had belonged to individual families and had averaged less than 20 acres . |
| 30 | They had averaged less than 20 acres , whereas in Kursk guberniia heavily populated and extensive communes prevailed . |