Example sentences of "[verb] less than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 2 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 3 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 4 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 5 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 6 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
| 7 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 8 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 9 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 10 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 11 | The style and method of management matter less than the question of whether the headteacher can collaborate with other schools and is prepared to make adjustments and concessions in the way the school is run in order to allow better pooling of time , staff or other resources . |
| 12 | PRINCE Albert of Monaco , above , has been hit with a paternity suit less than a month after beating a similar claim . |
| 13 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 14 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 16 | At a rough estimate , staff are currently recycling less than a quarter of the paper LASMO buys . |
| 17 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 18 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 19 | That represents less than a quarter of the student population affected by the benefit changes . |
| 20 | If so , the policy would be endorsed with endorsement HO2 — Under-Insurance Clause and in the event of under-insurance , i.e. where the the sum insured represents less than the value at risk , the settlement would be subject to average , and the Policyholder would be responsible for a rateable proportion of the loss . |
| 21 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 22 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 23 | Senior professors at our university , for example , may earn less than the staff at the nearby Westernised hotel and considerably less than the street corner cobblers or entrepreneur peasants , but they get massive banquets and use of the university 's chauffeur-driven cars . |
| 24 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 25 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 26 | Both Wagamama and Belgo are open every day from midday until eleven , neither accepts bookings , and you can get away with spending less than a tenner in either . |
| 27 | The decrease in ATF1 mRNA during differentiation of F9 cells ( ∼3 fold ) appears less than the decrease in ATF1 protein levels ( ∼10 fold ) . |
| 28 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 29 | Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old . |
| 30 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |