Example sentences of "[adv] less than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 2 | The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle . |
| 3 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 5 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm already less than a metre high . |
| 7 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 8 | ( c ) Repayment of loans from settlors Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of complete repayment of a loan , then , if an amount not less than the sum is thereafter lent by the settlor to the trustees of the settlement , no part of that sum shall by virtue of TA 1988 , s677(1) be treated as his income for any year of assessment after that in which the further loan is made ( TA 1988 , s677(5) ) . |
| 9 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 10 | In addition , there may well be a requirement that any sub-letting is to be at not less than the rent in the lease , and that any sub-lease is to contain similar rent reviews to those in the lease . |
| 11 | Where a capital sum is paid to the settlor in the year of assessment by a body corporate connected with the settlement in that year it shall be assumed until the contrary is shown that an associated payment of an amount not less than the amount of the capital sum has been made to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement ( s678(7) ) . |
| 12 | Her tilted smile put the usual dent , something just less than a dimple , at the corner of her mouth as she pulled on a robe bought only three days previously , sumptuous emerald silk with an elaborate multicoloured dragon embroidered all over the back . |
| 13 | Therefore , if the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than an equilibrium amount ; then , if the scale of production is temporarily diminished somewhat below that equilibrium amount , it will tend to return ; thus the equilibrium is stable for displacements in that direction . |
| 14 | Such an equilibrium is stable ; that is , the price , if displaced a little from it , will tend to return , as a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point ; and it will be found to be a characteristic of stable equilibria that in them the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , and vice versa . |
| 15 | If the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , it is sure to be less than the supply price for amounts just greater : and therefore , if the scale of production is somewhat increased beyond the equilibrium position , it will tend to return ; and the equilibrium will be stable for displacements in that direction also . |
| 16 | The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ . |
| 17 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 18 | The dorsal most or second dorsal most arm spines are the longest about 1½ arm segments long , the ventral ones usually less than an arm segment in length . |
| 19 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk usually covered by plates sometimes with thickened skin ; radial shield usually conspicuous ; arm combs sometimes present ; one to many apical papillae flanked by a continuous series of oral papillae ; second oral tentacle pore opening outside the mouth slit or opening outside but entering the mouth slit via a furrow ; oral shield variable in shape and size ; arms varying size ; arm spines usually less than an arm segment in length and usually appressed . |
| 20 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 21 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 22 | Henry VI , still less than a year old , already king of England , now assumed the crown of France , a position which his father had never quite achieved . |
| 23 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 24 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 25 | Which was strange , as she had spelt it out very clearly less than a year before , in a BBC TV interview . |
| 26 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 27 | Probably less than a week . |
| 28 | The plants were moved to chilling temperatures for a fairly short time , and any resulting decline in growth was probably less than the variation . |
| 29 | In fact it was slightly less than a minute . |
| 30 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |