Example sentences of "[verb] less than [art] [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 | If we are to study the genetics of quantitative characters we should aim to know less than the exact genotype responsible for each phenotype . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This will leave a " flatter " drop which will magnify less than a spherical drop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A good-looking , pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin , and wrote just as well . |
| 8 | On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals . |
| 9 | The German companies distinguished less than the British ones between careers and departments for production management and production engineering , work planning and work execution functions . |
| 10 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 11 | Fats should contribute less than a third of the total energy in your diet . |
| 12 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 13 | Too often the UN has had less than the best . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It means that the compass shows less than the actual amount of turn . |
| 16 | Buying less than the best is a false economy . |
| 17 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 18 | And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here . |
| 19 | For 1974–79 and 1979–84 which regions lose more and which lose less than the national average ? |
| 20 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 'll see from the tables submitted by Mr Potter on past land-take that we 've actually provided less than the twenty six hectares even , that 's because the opportunities did not arise . |
| 23 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 24 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 25 | All cases against individuals involving less than a specified amount ( £25,000 , for example ) should be enforced through the County Court . |
| 26 | In fishes , the brain weighs less than the spinal cord ; in the horse the ratio is about 2.5 to 1 ; in the cat 5 to 1 ; in apes about 8 to 1 ; and in humans about 50 to 1 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the Borders , Peter Jeary , director of finance , said that more than half the 47,000 households on the council tax register would pay less than the regional community charge bills of £312 in 1992-93 . |
| 29 | At the time , the defections did amount to this proportion , but JD leaders then expelled 25 of the defectors and claimed that , as the remaining 37 represented less than the legal quota , they should be disqualified from parliament . |
| 30 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |