Example sentences of "[adj] and less [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
| 2 | His remark to Berthe Morisot in 1889 — ‘ I go less and less to paris , where the only thing people talk about is politics ’ — supports this view . |
| 3 | In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ . |
| 4 | But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future . |
| 5 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |