Example sentences of "much less [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well over thirty feet long with a 48-foot span and stressed to 3.5h , it is a tribute to de Havilland engineering skill that at 3,600 pounds including floats the great lump nevertheless weight much less than a Jaguar XJ200 .
2 But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer .
3 Britain 's National Debt is P£4000 , much less than a mortgage .
4 She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn .
5 They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it .
6 Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer .
7 No , but it was a loan to me and I said to my dad he was loaning it me and I said to him erm I pay you back and then when I went to pick the cheque up er he says er well me mum says he giving you that you know he says what we 're gon na do is when , when they write the will out you 'll get that much less than the others , I says well as long as it ai n't gon na cause any problems
8 The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location .
9 In his eyes I amount to nothing , much , much less than the sum total of him .
10 Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe .
11 No other species assemblages have such a disproportion , and for the most part the numbers of digested in situ incisors are either the same as or much less than the numbers of isolated incisors .
12 In most stepping motor systems the winding time constant is much less than the period of rotor oscillations about each equilibrium position .
13 This is much less than the temperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe ( about 2.7° ) above absolute zero ) , so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb .
14 That is not much less than the county 's entire annual tax revenues before the landfill opened .
15 Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty .
16 For low values of current ill the pole windings the flux density in the stator/rotor iron is small and the reluctance of these parts of the flux path is much less than the reluctance of the air-gap between the stator and rotor teeth .
17 It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election .
18 Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care .
19 So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) .
20 Since the number of probes is much less than the library size , it is more efficient to order the probes first and then fit the clones to the probe order automatically .
21 Japanese institutions , once the biggest consumers of privately placed paper from Europe , have bought much less since the Tokyo stockmarket crashed last year .
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