Example sentences of "[is] less than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 2 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 3 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 4 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 5 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 6 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 7 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 8 | Secondly , the range of birth weights is less than the range of infant weights , and head circumference and length at birth are known to be inaccurate measurements . |
| 9 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that the gap between the read/write heads and the hard disk platter is less than the size of a single smoke particle , it is sensible to declare the computer work area a no-smoking zone . |
| 11 | If it is less than the level at which NI contributions must be paid , your employee can not get SSP . |
| 12 | If the cost of abuse is less than the cost of implementing and enforcing regulatory structures in preventing the abuse , there seems to be , prima facie , a case for doing nothing , at least on a preventive level . |
| 13 | there is a number k>0 which is less than the cost of any step : cost ( N , C ) r k for every node N and child C. |
| 14 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 15 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 16 | Taking into account the proposed dividend of 2.2p , this amounts to a total return of 18.3 per cent , though it is less than the increase in the Hoare Govett Smaller Companies — up 24.1 per cent . |
| 17 | Even so , the difficulty for the individual creating a root definition is less than the difficulty in getting all the individuals involved to agree on the definition to be used . |
| 18 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 19 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 20 | This is made possible either by divestment of subsidiaries ( ie a sale from one company to another ) or by hostile takeovers from ‘ break-up specialists ’ , who calculate that the value of the whole company as determined by the Stock Market , is less than the value of the sum of the parts . |
| 21 | If it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the value of the company 's assets is less than the amount of its liabilities , taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities ( Section 123(2) ) . |
| 22 | a creditor has judgment for a debt , execution of which is unsatisfied ; ( c ) the court is satisfied that the company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due ; ( d ) the court is satisfied that the value of the company 's assets is less than the amount of its liabilities . |
| 23 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 24 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 25 | Groundwater flows down-slope towards the river channel , but the rate of groundwater flow is less than the rate of throughflow or of overland flow . |
| 26 | Proportionately , the reduction in Wales is less than the average for the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 27 | The use of the word " chance " in s32A(1) suggests that the test is less than the balance of probabilities . |
| 28 | The amplitude of the decaying exponential ( 2.3x10 -6 Hz ) is less than the sum of these , leaving a net increase of 0.25x10 -6 Hz . |
| 29 | The new union is less than the sum of the other two . |
| 30 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |