Example sentences of "less than [noun] [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 | Still , it 's less than Joy by Jean Patou , a mere £568 for 30ml , contained in a crystal baccarat . |
| 4 | The Austrian fleece is one reason why Phoenix are able to offer Windstopper on some of their jackets at about £15 to £20 less than others on the market . |
| 5 | The exercise of her bent for administration , and her own newly acquired peace of mind , sent Charity , no less than Clarissa to bed happy . |
| 6 | Furthermore when a random access pallet system is employed utilization of pallet spaces provided can be as high 95% rather than less than 85% in more conventional warehouses . |
| 7 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |
| 8 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 9 | The L-Series systems are targeted to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 10 | The L-Series systems are to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 11 | Those Lines on the Lada were taken by some as less than kind to the Bank Car Scheme . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 15 | Ah , Mary , Mary Shelley , how dear you were and are , beyond all women — and yet what was possible then was only possible because we were mere phantoms in the world , or so we saw it , and scarcely less than phantoms to each other . |
| 16 | They are nothing less than soapboxes for critical sporting fans . |
| 17 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 18 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 19 | Perhaps the year in which the Byrd discography reaches its centenary should also be the year in which the record-collector , no less than subscribers to The Byrd Edition , can proudly survey a well-filled shelf and say , ‘ This is the full measure of William Byrd . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But such a misguided view fails to take into account first the " fusing " of the many experienced crews that served in the Force , and the pooling of operational expertise that followed the hard-won tactical procedures , and last but no means least the steady improvement of the boffinery devices that were tried and tested on the job by no less than Bennett in person . |
| 22 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 23 | To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness . |
| 24 | There is a backwash to all this , however : as a stage-show they are less than shadow-puppets on the wall . |
| 25 | Alternatively , people in an average house in Southampton would pay £89 less than people in Salisbury . |
| 26 | Gloucestershire drivers currently pay less than people in cities but that gap will have to narrow |
| 27 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 28 | IBOA members in Britain fully realise this situation and have taken it on board in recent years by accepting pay settlements which were far less than increases in the Retail Price Index . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ! |