Example sentences of "[adv] less than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 2 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 3 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 4 | Where a capital sum is paid to the settlor in the year of assessment by a body corporate connected with the settlement in that year it shall be assumed until the contrary is shown that an associated payment of an amount not less than the amount of the capital sum has been made to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement ( s678(7) ) . |
| 5 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 6 | ( ii ) Pipette small groups of embryos ( 3–4 ) up and down through a micropipette with a bore slightly less than the diameter of the embryos . |
| 7 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 8 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 9 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 10 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 11 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 13 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 14 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 15 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 16 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 17 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 18 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 19 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 20 | When capital allowances were available for expenditure on plant and equipment and industrial buildings , the cost of a lease was often less than the cost of financing debt to acquire the asset , because the lessor was able to utilize the tax benefits more effectively than the lessor . |
| 21 | ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers . |
| 22 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |