Example sentences of "less [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will spin at different speeds with less or more sand . |
| 2 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 3 | President , Kevin , Lancashire region , in the light of your comments , I must admit I do n't expect anything less or more of G M B than what it always does , and that 's put its actions where its words are . |
| 4 | In other words , the reason for my coy mistress 's quaint sense of honour was nothing more nor less than financial prudence . |
| 5 | That answer smacks of nothing less than smug complacency . |
| 6 | In common with several top players , Lendl is less than enamoured of the delays in promulgating a set of rules for the Tour which meet the desires of the competitors . |
| 7 | ‘ The black smoke produced may be a delight to railway photographers on the mountain , but the residents of Llanberis and district and 99 per cent of the passengers are understandably less than enamoured . |
| 8 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 9 | But according to some husbands , the enthusiasm may seem less than wholehearted . |
| 10 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 11 | The language used in Synod has often proved to be less than gentlemanly . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh dear ’ — to express dismay at the less than gentlemanly antics of players . |
| 13 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 14 | But in the same interview Mr Dole , as is his way , was a little less than helpful to the president . |
| 15 | The timing of the information release is ideal — usually just after publication date — but the amount and presentation of information is less than helpful . |
| 16 | The problems that juries were liable to arrive at verdicts that were less than helpful and that witnesses and jurors were vulnerable to intimidation were met by the abolition of juries in the criminal courts and the introduction of unorthodox expedients to enable witnesses to remain anonymous . |
| 17 | But the way in which they are present may be less than helpful . |
| 18 | She might have known he would be less than helpful . |
| 19 | — were true but less than prophetic , since people read it in their millions . |
| 20 | The PCB content is less than one-fiftieth of the American breathing air standard . |
| 21 | Rivers , lakes , soils and the atmosphere , the obvious sources of freshwater , contain about 200 000 cubic kilometres of water — less than one-fiftieth of 1 per cent of the world 's total water supply . |
| 22 | The lapse-rate is less than adiabatic above about 30 km altitude , and at about 35 km altitude a minimum temperature of about 105 K is encountered . |
| 23 | Although Africa 's gas reserves are far larger than Europe 's , African production is less than one-fifth of European production and in 1983 indigenous consumption accounted for less than 10% of energy demand . |
| 24 | Among the most vulnerable households are those headed by women — at the last census in 1980 approximately one-third of rural households were female-headed , and less than one-fifth in town . |
| 25 | During the early 1980s , expenditure on the grands projets in Paris was so large that from 1980 to 1983 less than one-fifth of central government funds was going to the provinces . |
| 26 | Not only do the Japanese work 10 per cent longer than in the UK , 15 per cent longer than in France or the US and 25 per cent longer than West Germany but absentee levels are less than one-fifth of those recorded in the EEC . |
| 27 | Less than one-fifth of offenders imprisoned during 1988 had committed an offence involving sexual or physical violence ( Prison Statistics 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The American venture capitalists were less than indifferent to anything coming out of Russia or the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 29 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 30 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |