Example sentences of "less [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 2 | For values of H less than unity the pull.out torque/speed characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis . |
| 3 | Speaker 1 could then accommodate by using that variant back to speaker 2 : though this would only appear as convergence where speaker 1 would " normally " use that variant less than speaker 2 . |
| 4 | The DTI today pledged to dump the existing system which produces an injury total 100 times less than council statistics around 800 against 80,000 a year . |
| 5 | Curiously , in being less than art , the new ‘ cutting-edge ’ art has turned out to be more than art . |
| 6 | This follows six years where wholesale prices have risen less than inflation , according to the brewery . |
| 7 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 8 | No doubt the Second Vice-President had in mind the days when the TANU paper the Nationalist used to ‘ embellish and decorate ’ the speeches of Kawawa 's rival Oscar Kambona whilst doing less than justice to the speeches of other ministers . |
| 9 | It represents George 's view of events and retains a lengthy account of the proceedings of the Northumbrian council while doing less than justice to the southumbrian gatherings . |
| 10 | The connection between lies and statistics is perhaps subject to unduly cynical comment , but I think Quentin Oates does his knowledge of the trade less than justice in an amusing but unscientific presentation of ‘ Books of the Year ’ research . |
| 11 | Total funding for economic development projects in Liverpool for one year through the Urban Programme was less than Unemployment Benefit paid in the city in one week . |
| 12 | where I used to put two , two bags on a day , and have it up at number five and six we 've got it on one bag a day and it 's on nu less than number one . |
| 13 | ‘ Age concerns me less than efficiency . |
| 14 | By the mid 1960s , not only was this area experiencing acidities less than pH 4.0 but the area of acid precipitation with values below pH 4.5 had expanded to include most of East and West Germany , northern France , eastern England and southern Scandinavia . |
| 15 | Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $48.5m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston . |
| 16 | This gives an impression of fluent , though probably ‘ speeded ’ , motion since the ‘ sign ’ must be executed in a stimulus duration less than eye movement latency . |
| 17 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 18 | The rain that falls in Great Britain poses no direct threat to human health — with an acidity level less than lemon juice or vinegar — but it does affect our environment in a number of ways . |
| 19 | The programme featured a group of workers at Bobtail , a small textile company in Nottinghamshire , all of whom were paid less than Labour 's proposed minimum wage of £3.40 an hour . |
| 20 | It discovers , in the insurance chain Safeguard — part of the MAI empire — ‘ dozens of youngsters who are paid little over £3,000 a year ’ , less than Labour 's minimum wage . |
| 21 | At lower temperatures , however , when colliding particles have less energy , particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced less quickly-and annihilation would become faster than production . |
| 22 | Harrods Library , which had an extensive clientele , used to publish long lists of ex-library books which could be bought at a third of the price when new , or less if rebound for library use . |
| 23 | The risks would be less if Congress were to act quickly on reform proposals provided by the administration , which could attract new capital into banking from outside , and break down the barriers that have hampered the growth of strong banks . |
| 24 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 25 | House prices have fallen less and job losses have been a fraction of those in the rest of Britain . |