Example sentences of "[is] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 2 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 3 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 4 | If hardware flow control is used , the Z88 will bring RTS low when the receive buffer becomes more than half full and bring RTS high when the receive buffer is less than a quarter full . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the venue is less than a mile away from Castlemorton Common , which was invaded by more than twenty thousand hippies a fortnight ago . |
| 9 | The Million Sterling Tournament is less than a month away . |
| 10 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 15 | If the new resolution is less than the original , you can show part of the original at full resolution , and pan it around if appropriate , or compress it to make it all visible . |
| 16 | However , if the market price is less than the contract price , the difference between the two represents the seller 's loss . |
| 17 | But you 've agreed to a budget that is less than the capping level . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If it is less than the level at which NI contributions must be paid , your employee can not get SSP . |
| 20 | It will sometimes be the case that , for certain instruction groups , the number of bits required fully to specify an operation and all its associated information is less than the computer word length ; so these groups are using the word inefficiently , and are candidates for occupying only a portion of a word . |
| 21 | If the switching angle is not optimised at any operating speed then the motor torque is less than the pull-out torque . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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. |
| 24 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 25 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Assume case 2 , i.e. that the level of expenditure most preferred by the median voter ( X* ) is less than the reversion level . |
| 29 | Thus , if the median voter 's preferred point X *1 is less than the reversion level , a lump-sum grant will put the new equilibrium level of public spending at a new higher reversion level . |
| 30 | 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 . |