Example sentences of "less than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1948 , a little less than a million households were drawing national assistance . |
| 2 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 3 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 4 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 6 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 7 | Although there have been only five changes of governing party in Britain since nationalization in 1948 , there have been 21 transport ministers during that time , an average of one less than every two years . |
| 8 | This was considerably less than the 5s 6d ( 27½p ) a week that Arthur Young considered women similarly engaged at Askrigg in the Yorkshire lead mining district to earn . |
| 9 | Explaining that the parish precept had risen to 8 percent less than the 11–1/2 percent predicted for many other councils , David Clark , finance and general purposes chairman , was questioned by Col. John Dabson . |
| 10 | Daily turnover in options has been regularly less than the 30,000 contracts per day which it is estimated the LTOM needs to cover its costs . |
| 11 | I think it 's next door The te er the fifteen percent was less than the ten percent , you see ? |
| 12 | Lancashire colliers seem to have been able to earn around 1s 9d ( 8½p ) a day by 1786 , rather less than the 2s 3d ( 11p ) then being earned on the Yorkshire coalfield , let alone the 3s ( 15p ) for which Staffordshire miners were then striking . |