Example sentences of "[adj] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
2 | Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 . |
3 | But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer . |
4 | Britain 's National Debt is P£4000 , much less than a mortgage . |
5 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
6 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
7 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
8 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
9 | In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him . |
10 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
11 | In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position . |
12 | This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb . |
13 | That is not much less than the county 's entire annual tax revenues before the landfill opened . |
14 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
15 | For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth . |
16 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
17 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
18 | Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically . |
19 | When there is a head , as in the following example : in a little less than an hour |
20 | On 16 April the House Budget Committee reported out a budget resolution that incorporated $15.8 billion in cuts — $20 billion less than the administration had requested — and the battle was now joined for the votes of those who could make or break the president 's programme , the Gypsy Moths and the Boll Weevils . |
21 | And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 . |
22 | spaces are one less than the number of posts . |
23 | By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated ; the remainder is bare peat , clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off . |
24 | Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof ? |
25 | An alternative scheme for a ‘ brown-field site , costing £16 million — £9 million less than the capital cost for the favoured project — has been lightly dismissed . |
26 | The overall trade deficit for 1989 showed a marked improvement at $108,600 million , $10,000 million less than 1988 and $44,000 million less than the peak year of 1987 . |
27 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
28 | Erm not , they did n't lose it , they went three hundred million less than the year before profit though , two hundred millio er bad debts |