Example sentences of "less than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benelux states , however , wanted a more decisive effort , and suggested that instead of further sectoral integration to supplement the ECSC , the target should be nothing less than a comprehensive economic community . |
| 2 | In 1948 , a little less than a million households were drawing national assistance . |
| 3 | However , whereas GEC/Siemens had originally proposed that their joint bid would result in a series of joint ventures between them , it became increasingly clear subsequently that the bid was , according to Sir John Clark , Plessey 's Chairman , ‘ no more or less than a simple old-fashioned attempt to carve up one of the leading British electronics companies ’ between GEC and Siemens ' . |
| 4 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |
| 5 | Passengers will be able to travel the 3,440 miles from London to New York on Virgin flights for less than a 40-minute business-class trip across the Channel . |
| 6 | Anything less than a textual change to the Treaty is therefore no change at all . |
| 7 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 8 | The time difference is tiny — less than a thousandth of a second — but the brain can not only detect this difference but also use it to compute the position of the sound source . |
| 9 | It remains extraordinary , though , that with a brain of only 950,000 neurons — less than a thousandth of those in the human retina — bees can learn colours , textures and smells as well as motor skills , and when set appropriate tasks can show most of the features of conditioning , associative and non-associative learning and relatively long-lasting memory found by mammalian psychologists in organisms with many-fold larger brains . |
| 10 | If at first he had thought it would be sufficient simply to eliminate various shortcomings in Soviet life , Gorbachev explained , he was now in no doubt that nothing less than a radical reconstruction of the whole of society was necessary . |
| 11 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 12 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 13 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 14 | I eventually bought an MX-5 with hard-top , limited slip diff , air conditioning and option package A for £8000 , some £6000 less than a tax-free UK-supplied car of the same specification . |
| 15 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 16 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 17 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 18 | Anything less than a straight A disappointed me , and even when I had clearly gained the best grade in the class — a slightly alleviating factor-I still told myself that it was n't good enough . |
| 19 | Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together . |
| 20 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 21 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 22 | Mike would never agree to less than a six per cent royalty . |
| 23 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 24 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 25 | He is after nothing less than a full-blown and not always approving commentary on Irish attitudes . |
| 26 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 27 | For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government . |
| 28 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 29 | Clearly , to answer Adorno completely would require nothing less than a complete ‘ production history ’ of popular music from 1890 to the present . |
| 30 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |