Example sentences of "far [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mr Major is expected to announce that the Trident submarines will carry far fewer than the expected 512 warheads . |
| 2 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 3 | If we need any prisons — we certainly need far fewer than we have — it is around that miracle they should be designed . |
| 4 | It is aimed either at the external hacker of which there are far fewer than press reports suggest or at the employee who though they have legitimate access legitimate lim limited access to a computer , nevertheless go beyond that authorization , but in order for the act to be successful , in order to get a successful prosecution , the prosecution have got to show that the access was unauthorized , and in the absence of clear codes of conduct , clear on-screen messages , that can be quite tricky . |
| 5 | Yet less than half a million votes were cast to keep Cripps inside the Labour Party , far fewer than were cast three years earlier to accept the affiliation of the Communist Party . |
| 6 | So although the wet climate in the west of Britain causes more magnesium to be washed from the soil than in Germany , this amount is far less than that added to the soil each year from rainfall . |
| 7 | Britain collects far more and spends far less than any other EC country . |
| 8 | But the yields on their bonds varied by far less than the ratings would suggest . |
| 9 | When the motives are wrong the venue is nearly always far less than the best . |
| 10 | You will be buying at far less than it will be worth in 1996 or 1997 , when the inevitable upturn means you will see a big capital appreciation . ’ |
| 11 | The Japanese , champions of new product development , spend far less than the British on hiring market researchers , relying instead on information obtained by their own managers who get out and talk to dealers and customers . |
| 12 | Heat and smoke release rates in the Kuwait situation were far less than those predicted for urban firestorms after a nuclear exchange . |
| 13 | But if the surface is full of light-scattering particles ( including the floating animals and plants of the plankton ) then the ‘ photic zone ’ ( the region of light penetration ) is far less than this . |
| 14 | The drawings bore Latin inscriptions — ‘ Day of Resurrection ’ , ‘ Day of Wrath ’ — that are so unlike any of the rest of his works that they have been largely ignored , and sell for far less than any other of Modigliani 's works . |
| 15 | This is half the typical findings for France , and far less than the third or more often reported from eastern Europe or from Japan in the same centuries . |
| 16 | Although , the rule of the clock affected most people in the sixteenth century far less than it does us today , it was already sufficient to provoke Brother Jean in the Gargantua ( 1535 ) of Rabelais to complain that ‘ the hours are made for man and not man for the hours ! ’ |
| 17 | It is certainly the case that crime rates in socialist countries are far less than in the USA and other capitalist societies . |
| 18 | At present , however , ground-collected environmental data are far less than ideal . |
| 19 | The rotors were often run at a circumferential velocity only slightly higher than that of the relative wind , that is at far less than optimal efficacy . |
| 20 | The Upper Livulezi project will supply 30 000 people with water for only 6 Kwacha ( about £4 ) a head — far less than other aid-financed groundwater schemes . |
| 21 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |
| 22 | ‘ The differences between various digital formats are far less than between microphone placings . |
| 23 | The size of domestic cats varies far less than that of domestic dogs . |
| 24 | And Europe , with its disgraceful feline past , has provided far less than its fair share . |
| 25 | For what we had just created was not a life but a death , and one that was to take far less than nine months to gestate . |
| 26 | At another level all three chapters here demonstrate that the notion of private investment following public is far from simple ; in both London 's Docklands at the grand scale , and in Pittsburgh , in finer detail , urban policy initiatives amplified social polarisation and benefited the local communities , which had provided the rationale for policy intervention , far less than might be expected . |
| 27 | That 's why we make all our own kitchens , so we can bring you a beautiful , individual designed collection for far less than any comparable kitchen . |
| 28 | Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand . |
| 29 | The setting-up costs of a PEP are far less than for an endowment policy , so , investment conditions permitting , early encashment should not prove penal . |
| 30 | The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing . |