Example sentences of "less than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 4 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 5 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 6 | With respect to Fig. 9–12(b) he argues that , if the indifference curves shown related to ineligibles , then the utility gain from attempting to consume this good would be less than the utility gain from falsely claiming a cash transfer . |
| 7 | It costs £13,950 without extras , £2,000 less than the Escort RS 2000 , the replacement for the XR3i . |
| 8 | The advent of twentieth-century mass propaganda technologies and techniques — heralded in the Great War , developed subsequently in totalitarian regimes ( the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany ) — no less than the development of sound broadcasting in France , led Parliament , after much hesitation , to vote the law of 1923 . |
| 9 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 10 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 11 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 12 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 13 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 14 | The pleasant surprise I mentioned earlier was that the tank carried a recommended price tag of only £26 — and that 's less than the price of buying the glass cut to size from the glass merchant . |
| 15 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wo wo , it 's less than the price of a cup of tea . |
| 18 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 19 | In this latter case the incremental costs of extra memory and software development is likely to be less than the price of a separate hardware controller . |
| 20 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
| 21 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
| 22 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 23 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 24 | If yields rise the price of B falls by less than the price of A , while if yields fall the price of B rises by more than that of A. High convexity is therefore a desirable property for bonds to have . |
| 25 | ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers . |
| 26 | In Scotland the rise in the number of long-term unemployed rose by less than the rest of Britain . |
| 27 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 28 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 29 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 30 | A FAMILY of four can enjoy a healthy diet for less than the Government 's estimated £10 a person a week , according to a new recipe booklet from The Sugar Bureau . |