Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His bill will be just £273 — £100 less than the bill for the lowest value property in Langbaurgh . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 5 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 6 | per annum less than the average for English non-metropolitan forces . |
| 7 | Proportionately , the reduction in Wales is less than the average for the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 8 | Hence , the investor might conclude that Commercial Union was slightly more volatile than comparable firms and earned slightly less than the average for the sector . |
| 9 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 10 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 11 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |