Example sentences of "much less [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer . |
| 2 | Britain 's National Debt is P£4000 , much less than a mortgage . |
| 3 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
| 4 | You should then focus on one academic session , normally much less than a full twelve-month period . |
| 5 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 6 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 7 | No other species assemblages have such a disproportion , and for the most part the numbers of digested in situ incisors are either the same as or much less than the numbers of isolated incisors . |
| 8 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
| 9 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 10 | Weight for weight , this is still quite respectable , as compared with steel , but it is of course much less than the tensile strength . |
| 11 | That is not much less than the county 's entire annual tax revenues before the landfill opened . |
| 12 | The interface is stabilized by some 400 2 of total buried surface area , much less than the 880 2 buried in the more intimate association of CD4(D1D2) . |
| 13 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
| 14 | When the king 's agents bought the wool it fetched much less than the expected price and the scheme collapsed , leaving resentment amongst the producers , the lesser merchants who had not participated in the scheme , and those who had been paid in Dordrecht Bonds . |
| 15 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 16 | In fact , at 190 grams , this headset weighs much less than the traditional line of Stax units . |
| 17 | The second map ( figure 5.14 ) shows the geography of the Department of Defense 's spending on salaries ( for civilians and service personnel together ) , and indicates that the great majority of the southern States ( with the exceptions of Louisiana and Arkansas ) were substantial beneficiaries , whereas northeastern States got much less than the national average per capita expenditure in this category . |
| 18 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 19 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 20 | This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb . |
| 21 | For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth . |
| 22 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
| 23 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
| 24 | This is obviously much less than the comparable figure of half a billion , which is the factor by which the histone H4 gene after natural selection is more accurate than a typical secretary ; but it is still a very impressive figure . |
| 25 | In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him . |
| 26 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 27 | Of course , SERPS rights had to be forfeited , but for younger people these were calculated to be worth much less than the personal pension could offer . |
| 28 | In the quadruple expression vector that made the 4 structural proteins of BTV , the weaker site was used for expression of VP3 , since the molar proportion of VP3 in VLPs is much less than the other three major proteins of BTV ( 27 , 28 ) . |
| 29 | Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically . |
| 30 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |