Example sentences of "[adv] less than [art] [noun] [prep] " 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 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 3 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 4 | The radial shields are small , slightly less than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , triangular to irregularly rectangular in shape . |
| 5 | Hence , the investor might conclude that Commercial Union was slightly more volatile than comparable firms and earned slightly less than the average for the sector . |
| 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 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 13 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 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 | A cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor , indomethacin , also significantly decreased the chemiluminescence signal but the magnitude ( -34% ) was substantially less than the effects of either azide or catalase ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |
| 20 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 21 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | Secondly , the variation in the reference measurement is greater when a plant is present , but still considerably less than the variation in the plant measurement . |
| 26 | The latest results are that , genetically , the difference between humans and chimpanzees is certainly less than the difference between the chimpanzee and the gorilla , or between the horse and the zebra . |
| 27 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |