Example sentences of "less than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Year 3 : No less than Year 2 sales |
| 2 | The risk that the rollover rate is less than yield to maturity is known as reinvestment risk ( or rollover risk ) . |
| 3 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |
| 4 | And the title track sounds like nowt less than Prince kicking a passing pauper 's head in . |
| 5 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 6 | If we assume , instead , that the poorest in the locality benefits ( though not fully ) from the cuts in central tax , a higher output will be chosen as a result of the cut in taxes , though this will be less than output OX 2 , the output that would be chosen if an equivalent lump-sum grant had been received . |
| 7 | The scale and complexity of changes taking place in the field of special needs and the necessary transformation of the teacher-training curriculum imply an agenda for teacher training that is nothing less than retraining and supporting every teacher in the country in working with pupils with special needs . |
| 8 | Objects of this nature in the sludge ridden book of definitions are not even craft , are less than craft , are merely ethnic . |
| 9 | Less than half ( 45% ) said that the off-farm job imposed limitations on the farm and by far the most common reason given was lack of time available to carry out the farm work . |
| 10 | Overall , somewhat more than half ( 57 per cent ) thought the law should be obeyed without exception , and slightly less than half ( 43 per cent ) believed that it was occasionally right to follow conscience and break the law . |
| 11 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 12 | Answer guide : If the net realizable value is less than cost then to use cost would overstate the future benefits ; on the other hand if it is higher , to include the higher figure would mean that unrealized profits were being taken which would be contrary to the prudence principle . |
| 13 | ‘ I would never dream of marrying for anything less than love . ’ |
| 14 | It was nothing more nor less than propinquity . |
| 15 | CONCOCTING massage oils , fragrant creams and mind bending perfumes is nothing less than alchemy — your humble kitchen will never be the same again ! |
| 16 | In admitting a highly promising but less than conformist Sheffield Grammar School boy to Gonville and Caius College , the university placed Keeton under the tutorship of one of the most astute and world-wise masters in the Law . |
| 17 | The L-Series systems are targeted to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 18 | The L-Series systems are to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 19 | While the papacy of Pope Paul had remained uncomfortably unidentified with either ‘ progressive ’ or ‘ conservative ’ , that of John Paul became increasingly closely tied to the latter , and at times in a state of not much less than guerrilla war with the ‘ magisterium ’ of the Church 's principal theologians : a truly strange position for a pope to be in . |
| 20 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 21 | THE police tend to get an unfavourable press , though in my experience they have never been anything less than kind , helpful and efficient when I 've needed them most . |
| 22 | Those Lines on the Lada were taken by some as less than kind to the Bank Car Scheme . |
| 23 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 24 | Taxonomic richness in predator assemblages is always less than habitat richness because of predator selectivity , so that the numbers of species in a predator assemblage can never be greater than were actually present . |
| 25 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 26 | I do n't think you 've got that right somehow , there 's no way , that retirement pension will be less than Income Benefit , it 's always a bit more . |
| 27 | The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses . |
| 28 | The price of all meats fell more in real terms than all foods — rising in price 15% less than inflation over the past 10 years — and are now 13% cheaper than a decade ago . |
| 29 | A survey of the US top 100 firms by Public Accounting Report showed that almost 25% had seen revenue fall over the past 12 months , with a further 20% reporting growth of less than inflation . |
| 30 | The budget projected total expenditure in 1992-93 to rise by only 5 per cent ( i.e. less than inflation ) to Rs1,190,000 million . |