Example sentences of "less [subord] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gloomy assessment of Derry 's chances is based on the poorest goal scoring record of any team in the top six — City have averaged less than a goal game from 28 League outings . |
| 2 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 3 | Today a tiny microelectronic processor less than a quarter-inch square can carry a hundred times more computing power than the massive Ferranti Mark I Star , Europe 's first commercial computer produced in 1950 . |
| 4 | In rats receiving the combination of sucralfate plus indomethacin , the area of gastric ulcer was less than the vehicle control but significantly higher than that after the treatment with sucralfate alone . |
| 5 | At the meeting Czechoslovak Environment Minister Josef Vavrousek claimed that life expectancy in his country averaged seven years less than the EC norm , principally due to industrial pollution , notably from sulphur dioxide emissions from the combustion of lignite ( brown coal ) . |
| 6 | OFTEL was instructed to ensure that , on average , the nominal price of BT phone calls rose x per cent per year less than the inflation rate of the retail price index . |
| 7 | In only four patients was deficient iron intake the sole cause for the anaemia found although 27 ( 57% ) had dietary intakes less than the reference nutrient intake . |
| 8 | The landlord may also express concern that on a forfeiture of the lease the undertenant may try to seek relief from forfeiture under s 146(4) of the Law of Property Act 1925 at a rent less than the lease rent . |
| 9 | This metal was specially developed for use in magnetic control systems and amplifiers and has a remarkably rectangular hysteresis loop in which the remanent flux is only 2.6% less than the saturation flux . |
| 10 | At recombination these scales were larger than the Hubble radius , and because microphysical processes can act only on scales less than the Hubble radius , these fluctuations must have been produced by the Sachs-Wolfe effect . |
| 11 | The US$2,100 million earmarked for the station in the 1993 budget was US$840,000,000 less than the Bush administration had requested but US$400,000,000 more than the House of Representatives had approved in late July . |
| 12 | Siena is about nine miles south east and Florence less than an hour drive . |
| 13 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |