Example sentences of "less [subord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risk that the rollover rate is less than yield to maturity is known as reinvestment risk ( or rollover risk ) . |
| 2 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |
| 3 | The L-Series systems are targeted to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 4 | The L-Series systems are to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 5 | Those Lines on the Lada were taken by some as less than kind to the Bank Car Scheme . |
| 6 | The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses . |
| 7 | The price of all meats fell more in real terms than all foods — rising in price 15% less than inflation over the past 10 years — and are now 13% cheaper than a decade ago . |
| 8 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 9 | Charles Temple , Richmond Palmer , Donald Cameron , Philip Mitchell — none of these were men who showed anything less than enthusiasm for the task of imperial government , and all of them were men of dominant personality and exceptional strength of will . |
| 10 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 11 | To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness . |
| 12 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 13 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 14 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 15 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 16 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 17 | This , I believe , does less than justice to their egalitarianism . |
| 18 | Shinwell 's remarks did less than justice to both men who , in their own fashion , had a genuine concern for the welfare of seamen and their organisation . |
| 19 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 20 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 21 | ‘ My chances of making an honest marriage or even of keeping up my business would be less than dust without the good will of my neighbours . |
| 22 | Jemson lasted less than half-an-hour on Saturday . |
| 23 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 24 | And few aboard , whether captain or crew , seemed anything less than awestruck during the entire nine hours that a transit usually takes . |