Example sentences of "less [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any progress towards the demolition of these foundations will help to promote a less ageist society and , therefore , one in which social justice for all older people can at last be achieved . |
| 2 | In addition it was established that women tended to receive less support services than male carers ( EOC , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | They have to overcome difficulties to accomplish these tasks so the amount of time involved increases the more the women participate and the less support workers take over . |
| 4 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 5 | The less teaching experience they have had , the more positive teachers are about frankness and balance . |
| 6 | The recognition performance in Study 3 was generally better than that in Study 2 , subjects showed marginally greater recognition sensitivity and significantly less response criterion bias . |
| 7 | This exercise revealed that the elderly in Britain were characterized by less income inequality than their European counterparts . |
| 8 | Third World citizens pay less income tax , but there is heavy reliance on ‘ indirect ’ taxes — and these are the same whether you are rich or poor . |
| 9 | ( Remember that the kind of cooking you do is very much to the point , for if you only cook simple meals you will need far less preparation area than a more ambitious cook — though here again your aspirations may change with experience . ) |
| 10 | Transplants of small groups of cells require less drug treatment and the risk of rejection is much reduced , according to the report . |
| 11 | He 'd want to spend some of my hard-saved eighty-five pounds ( less rail £7.50 , £3.75 hair-cut , £5 for Scabby Woman and B 'n' B £14 — plus bits of loose change ) before going home to Mum . |
| 12 | An ideal product for 600dpi reproduction is a newspaper as the quality of the paper is such that high definition typesetting is simply wasted and , as Eddy Shah found with the Messenger Group papers , you actually need less printing ink . |
| 13 | Studies of Whitehall civil servants in 1973 and 1980 suggested that vigorous exercise at weekends was associated with less heart disease . |
| 14 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 15 | Sea water though contains proportionately less hydrogen carbonate silicate and calcium than river water . |
| 16 | A complete block on foreign investment might well have resulted in less investment overall ; and the fact that so much was financed by overseas borrowing is of particular significance here . |
| 17 | Verkehrsberuhigung means , it argued , improvements for pedestrians , cycles , buses and trams , an increase in traffic safety , an improvement of the environment where you live , a stimulation of central living and shopping , less noise , less exhaust fumes , a more pleasant appearance and less traffic signs , greenness , and less comfort and speed for car traffic . |
| 18 | It 's also much quieter and even better behaved , by that we mean it burns cleaner with less exhaust emissions . |
| 19 | However , handwriting recognition has attracted far less research investment than speech , possibly due to the less ’ glamorous ’ image it possesses . |
| 20 | Different gutter layouts — for the same size gutter the centre layout will cope with 20 per cent less roof area than the top ; the bottom layout with loo per cent more |
| 21 | Less side effects Sir . |
| 22 | What the it has less side effects than other treatments . |
| 23 | It means we might be able to give higher doses , with less side effects . |
| 24 | The XT blade is substantially thicker than on conventional saws , which results in less side vibration and enables more precise cutting . |
| 25 | You 're just looking , less mind power becomes involved . |
| 26 | He says that because of the seated position the rider has less wind resistance and more leg power . |
| 27 | To take more efficient power stations first ; there are advanced technologies using fossil fuels ( gas turbines , in particular ; natural gas produces less carbon dioxide than coal and oil ) which are considerably more efficient and produce less carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | To take more efficient power stations first ; there are advanced technologies using fossil fuels ( gas turbines , in particular ; natural gas produces less carbon dioxide than coal and oil ) which are considerably more efficient and produce less carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere . |
| 30 | One of the biggest obstacles to an efficient industrial society is the instinctive feeling that equates emitting less carbon dioxide with privation — using less energy , producing less and losing profits . |