Example sentences of "less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 2 | Finding a partner can become more difficult the older people get , and retirement from work means one place less where there is the possibility of meeting someone new . |
| 3 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 4 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 5 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 6 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 7 | And sitting , of course , more or less where he sat , now that he has moved into his new office . |
| 8 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 9 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 10 | Which is more or less where we came in ! |
| 11 | However , if your eating habits are fairly erratic and you eat far less or very differently on some days than on others , keep the diary for ten days ( or longer if necessary ) until a picture of your eating habits emerges . |
| 12 | From the mere fact of wanting more or less or not at all or the contrary I can derive no imperative for choosing between my wants . |
| 13 | If the feminist folklinguistic belief that women are less or differently logical than men is a matter of content , it could be that this is the sort of thing feminists have in mind . |
| 14 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 15 | So our couple , having moved towards intercourse by a gradual — but less or more rapid — progression , are likely to join in coitus . |
| 16 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 17 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |
| 18 | It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . |
| 19 | Now if the alteration makes the crystal either less or more efficient in the damming/drying/erosion cycle , this will affect how many copies it has in subsequent ‘ generations ’ . |
| 20 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 21 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 22 | Yes , I think we should er , give them something , but seeing as they 've had three hundred pound , I think or less or perhaps two hundred pound , they 've got the five hundred , do they want erm , anything else . |
| 23 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 24 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
| 25 | managing with less once they are responsible ( fuel , cleaning materials ) ; |
| 26 | Gwen Evans wore neither less nor more make-up than most other women in the room , her skirt was by no means the shortest there , her dress zipped up the front right up to the collar and she had a cardigan draped casually over her shoulders . |
| 27 | If there is shame in this story , it is less that the Marcoses finally stood revealed as nobodies and as thieves on the grandest scale , and far more in the wasted opportunities . |
| 28 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 29 | ‘ Nay , 't is too risky , ’ said Edward , making it clear none the less that he had set aside his former objections . |
| 30 | In political terms , the worry in carrying out free market reform may be less that the reform fails than that it might succeed . |