Example sentences of "[verb] less than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 2 | Such a premature baby has less than a 10 per cent chance of survival and a healthy life because the lungs are not fully developed . |
| 3 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 4 | This will leave a " flatter " drop which will magnify less than a spherical drop . |
| 5 | Most countries allow their citizens to bring home articles without an import licence , providing they cost less than a certain amount , without paying excess duty . |
| 6 | A good-looking , pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin , and wrote just as well . |
| 7 | Fats should contribute less than a third of the total energy in your diet . |
| 8 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 9 | And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here . |
| 10 | The rapid decline in noble land-holding continued , so that by 1914 the nobility owned less than a third of what they had owned in 1861 . |
| 11 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 12 | All cases against individuals involving less than a specified amount ( £25,000 , for example ) should be enforced through the County Court . |
| 13 | Still , critics wonder how an institution next to the Museum of Natural History and a block away from New York 's Columbus Avenue could attract less than a third of the number of visitors who go every year to Norman Rockwell 's home in Stockbridge , Massachusetts . |
| 14 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 15 | He was going to have less than a sensational report to make to his captain , Van Gelder reflected . |
| 16 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 17 | The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ? |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , and no doubt it will be legislated against when nostovision becomes less than a seven-day wonder . |
| 19 | Overwhelmingly those who gain live in small households , and particularly single-person households : 2.5 million single-pensioner households will gain , whereas the Government estimates less than a half a million losers amongst this group . |
| 20 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 21 | Although women comprise less than a fifth of all known offenders , the proportion of young women passing through the courts is rapidly increasing . |
| 22 | He said the warlord 's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city . |
| 23 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |