Example sentences of "less [conj] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each member of the next generation is formed by the fusion of one sperm cell with one egg cell ; but the sperm cell is tiny , less than one millionth , often less than 100 millionth of the size of the egg cell . |
| 2 | argued , then the effect of a mask which eliminated the short term trace should force the subject to utilise the more " highly processed " stable representation and thus reveal a right hemisphere advantage even with inter.stimulus intervals of less than 100 msec . |
| 3 | I was now really eager to breed this species , but ( not surprisingly for the reasons I 've outlined ) the two individuals showed almost less than zero interest in each other , despite bribes of earthworms , which they can manage easily ( and eagerly ) without any need for chopping . |
| 4 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 5 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology or rather because it does n't require image decompression 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 second , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 6 | There is nothing to prevent eleven ( or fewer ) Member States entering into a treaty between themselves on matters outside or additional to the existing treaties — indeed the Maastricht Treaty itself , as is well known , envisages less than twelve Member States acting together in the ‘ new ’ areas of Monetary Union and Social policy — and in that sense can hardly be regarded as deepening the Community as previously defined . |
| 7 | The Save Hawkinge campaign was launched on September 7 with no less than five Air Vice Marshals and seven Air Commanders supporting the cause . |
| 8 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 9 | It will detect extensions down to less than five Ångström units which is about the resolution of a good electron microscope . |
| 10 | Oh I should n't let them go for any less than five pound a pair . |
| 11 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |
| 12 | Or gentleman smoking there , it 's less than four price of four cigarettes . |
| 13 | ‘ But if we are in a deep , narrow valley , say with width less than four depth , we do n't really know the period , due to reflections . ’ |
| 14 | In those forty minutes Kylie packed in eight songs and no less than four costume changes . |
| 15 | After no less than four mortgage rate rises in the past 18 months — which have brought the average home loan rate close to an all-time high of 15 per cent — home buyers have seen their monthly payments go up by more than 50 per cent . |
| 16 | To take two examples , in Groningen half the number of pedestrian accidents to those under 13 occur in streets with less than 200–350 motor vehicles per hour . |
| 17 | We believe you will find it quite difficult not to find a large number of meals which appeal to you , because no less than six cookery experts have combined their various tastes and talents to provide this selection of low-calorie , high-fibre meals . |
| 18 | This was a cabinet minister on the stump , pressing the flesh and banging the drum for Tory MP Simon Coombs defending a less than 5,000 majority . |
| 19 | Civil Service forced no less than 16 penalty corners during the game but were unable to cash in . |
| 20 | Whooping cough claims around 600,000 young lives each year — half of those deaths are of children less than 1 year old . |
| 21 | Nitrate concentrations beneath the edges are very low — even lower ( less than 1 milligram of NO&sub3/N per litre ) than beneath unfertilised grassland — but they are high near the centre , and particularly high where trees have fallen : this releases large quantities of nitrate . |
| 22 | The average size of these plots was less than 1 hectare in the inner city , but up to 10 hectares at the edges . |
| 23 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 24 | Low doses , whether given by infusion or bolus , and used on a short-term basis ( less than 1 week ) can be discontinued within 2–3 days often without any signs of withdrawal . |
| 25 | For your £6 subscription per annum , you get a free bus timetable giving you the times of at least three buses that visit no less than eight M/SV clubs . |
| 26 | Outside-right Fred ‘ Fanny ’ Walden , 21 , was just over five feet tall , weighed less than nine stone and looked easy meat for burly defenders . |
| 27 | There 's a standard desktop design ( 333d ) and a deskside unit ( 333t ) with no less than nine disk drive bays , and hard disk options up to 1260 MB — making it the ultimate file-server . |
| 28 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 29 | Less than 70 shopping days to Christmas . |
| 30 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |