Example sentences of "for no less [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In the bright sunshine each September in central Africa , the ngwazi ( conqueror ) Dr Kamuzu Banda , Life President and over eighty years old , has addressed 20,000 members of the women 's federation of Malawi for no less than three hours .
2 WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations .
3 One of Edgar Chance 's cuckoos , recognisable by its distinctive eggs , returned for no less than five consecutive years to the same common in southern England .
4 You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains .
5 Graphics are especially well handled ; there 's support for no less than 27 formats , including all the widely used ones such as PCX , TIFF , PIC and GIF .
6 What is worse , the part of the fuel market to which I have referred will be closed to competition for no less than 15 years , because the only way to obtain the gas is to sign a binding 15-year contract .
7 Probably best remembered of all , though , were the Larry O'Hooligan cartoons , which ran in the ‘ Pink ’ for no less than 63 years ( 1898–1961 ) .
8 External sales by chemical Products in Western Europe apart from the UK account for no less than 39 per cent of the total , and a further 31 per cent goes to non-ICI customers in Britain itself .
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