Example sentences of "[prep] less than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also common to say that there will be no liability in respect of a single claim of less than a small sum and then only when the aggregate of all such small claims exceeds a certain sum . |
| 2 | The big problem with today 's chips , which squeeze more than 120000 transistors into less than a square centimetre of silicon , is heat . |
| 3 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 4 | Fitzgerald chief and B&WR Finance Director Peter Fitzgerald said : ‘ BR can not run traffic with less than a full train . |
| 5 | Only , next day , he rode to Famagusta with less than a light heart , to lead his men to the end of the game . |
| 6 | As a general guideline it would not be worthwhile for people with less than an absolute minimum of £5,000 to invest per stock . |
| 7 | For the purposes of the research the authors originally defined ‘ non-standard entrants ’ ( NSE s ) as those entrants to degree courses with less than the normal minimum of 2 GCE A'level passes or the equivalent . |
| 8 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 9 | You can pick up an old farmhouse with barns and stables , so forth , so fifth , for less than a terraced house in Bolton at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 11 | A problem arises if the seller ( i.e. the person who puts the goods into the sale ) imposes a reserve price and the auctioneer nevertheless accepts a bid for less than the reserve price . |
| 12 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 13 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 14 | Before you settle for less than the genuine article , compare the price . |
| 15 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 16 | In this sense a stability test is never finished in less than the actual shelf-life of the product . |
| 17 | A comparison of social product per head in the 1950s with that in 1986 ( in current dinars , unadjusted for regional differences in the cost of living ) shows a significant improvement for Montenegro ( from less than 60 per cent of the average to 77 per cent ) and , at the other end of the scale , for Vojvodina ( from less than the Yugoslav average to 21 per cent above it ) . |
| 18 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 19 | But , with projected costs approaching $100 million ( £71.4 million ) and the Massachusetts budget seriously overburdened , Republican governor William F. Weld is not prepared to gamble on less than a sure bet . |
| 20 | Around the world generally one finds similar examples , albeit on less than an American scale , and there are probably many more not yet known in the world 's literature . |
| 21 | Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee . |
| 22 | What the myth does , of course , is to cause people to relate to their inner society of internal objects , i.e. , at less than a mature level . |
| 23 | The working hypothesis I end with , however , is that the subjective experiences of work , engendered by the application of particular rational-scientific principles of work organization , can have the psychic consequence that the worker is asked to manage himself at less than a mature level . |
| 24 | If the auctioneer , by mistake , forgets that there is a reserve price and knocks down the goods at less than the reserve price , there is no sale . |
| 25 | … The second matter applies particularly to private sector , fee-paying schools where , as the Financial Secretary knows , there is often an arrangement for the children of staff in these schools to be taught at less than the commercial fee in other schools . |
| 26 | In Oscar Chinn Judge Schucking thought that parties to a treaty which had placed restrictions upon conflicting treaties concluded by less than the full complement of parties to the former treaty , could regard as invalid a subsequent treaty concluded by a minority to the first treaty . |