Example sentences of "less than the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 3 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 4 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 5 | With respect to Fig. 9–12(b) he argues that , if the indifference curves shown related to ineligibles , then the utility gain from attempting to consume this good would be less than the utility gain from falsely claiming a cash transfer . |
| 6 | It costs £13,950 without extras , £2,000 less than the Escort RS 2000 , the replacement for the XR3i . |
| 7 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 8 | Where , on a buy-in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . |
| 9 | However , if the market price is less than the contract price , the difference between the two represents the seller 's loss . |
| 10 | Section 30(1) entitles the buyer to reject all the goods if less than the contract quantity is delivered . |
| 11 | But you 've agreed to a budget that is less than the capping level . |
| 12 | So from your point of view you were forced into bed with the Tories , but why are you spending less than the capping level ? |
| 13 | Assume case 2 , i.e. that the level of expenditure most preferred by the median voter ( X* ) is less than the reversion level . |
| 14 | If the median voter 's most preferred point remains less than the reversion level , the level of spending remains unchanged at the reversion level . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 . |
| 18 | The overall trade deficit for 1989 showed a marked improvement at $108,600 million , $10,000 million less than 1988 and $44,000 million less than the peak year of 1987 . |
| 19 | If the switching angle is not optimised at any operating speed then the motor torque is less than the pull-out torque . |
| 20 | In this simple approach to open.loop control there are three basic control functions : ( a ) stepping rate : sets the motor speed , which must be less than the start/stop rate , ( h ) phase sequencing : ensures that the motor phases are excited in the order corresponding to the required direction of rotation , ( c ) step counting : records the number of steps taken by the motor and inhibits the step commands when the target position is attained . |
| 21 | That 's less than the company subsidy for the North Harbour cafeteria , running around £900 per employee in 1990 . |
| 22 | The devaluation of the inti for the month of October was restricted to 6 per cent overall ; exporters were to receive 10 per cent of the value of their exports in foreign currency and 45 per cent in freely redeemable US dollar certificates , while the remaining 45 per cent would be paid in intis at the single exchange market rate ; import restrictions were eased ; to protect the silver sector against the continuing slump in prices since 1989 on the world market , the Central Reserve Bank was to buy silver at 5 per cent over the current market price ; fuel prices would rise by only 5 per cent in October , and public utility rates by less than the percentage rise in salaries , which themselves would be increased in accordance with inflation . |
| 23 | An alternative scheme for a ‘ brown-field site , costing £16 million — £9 million less than the capital cost for the favoured project — has been lightly dismissed . |
| 24 | ‘ The average couple will pay £200 less than the poll tax , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He receives his 1687.50 in margin plus an invoice ( or settlement ) amount to compensate him for being allocated a time deposit yielding less than the settlement interest rate . |
| 26 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 27 | The contract ensures that if you decide to cash in after five years in April 1997 , you will not get less than the unit price on offer in April 1996 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 30 | Obviously , if the calculation is made on the basis of averages , Labour 's proposed tax will appear to be less than the community charge this year , or the projections for the council tax . |