Example sentences of "smaller than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's smaller than a sheet of A4 paper , and is only 1.25 inches thick , so it 's an ideal travelling companion . |
2 | A comment taken from a mathematics survey observes that too many children have a ‘ fragile ’ grasp of decimals , some 33% of 11 year olds considering that a number of 3 decimal places was invariably smaller than a number with 2 decimal places regardless of the digits involved . |
3 | Full colour TV cameras are now available that are smaller than a packet of Polos whilst the definition of monitors is better than ever . |
4 | This means that there are fewer paths , so the cover of a digraph may be smaller than the cover of the undirected graph . |
5 | The pickup 's stylus must faithfully track undulations which are smaller than the wavelength of light . |
6 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |
7 | She was smaller than the Andalusian by a hand , yet her grace , her power were undeniable . |
8 | In it he states " a body is statistically homogeneous when the average of the internal constitution in any volume element is the same for all volume elements with dimensions not smaller than the scale under consideration " . |
9 | The majorities in Labour target seats are also smaller than the reduction in the rolls in Dulwich , Streatham , Greenwich and Wallasey . |
10 | Hoplosternum thoracatum reaches a length of about 18cm — the female is a little smaller than the male at 16cm . |
11 | In order for a cloud of particles to be able to collapse to form a black hole , it would seem necessary for this wavelength to be smaller than the size of the black hole that would be formed . |
12 | The strength of the junction formed will depend on t which should be smaller than the reptation time τ , i.e. the mixed layer ought to be smaller than the size of the coil if an interfacial link is to be formed . |
13 | She enjoyed the faint intoxication in the scent of violet soap or hand cream when Maman pulled her gardening gloves off her warm , dry hands the gloves were gauntlet-cuffed , the right gloves for a very small armoured knight smaller than the suit of armour in the hall , a baby knight . |
14 | Cut out the piece of paper , fabric or other backing material very slightly smaller than the back of the frame . |
15 | which is such that the proportion of people of the victim 's racial group who can comply is considerably smaller than the proportion of the people not of that group who can comply ; |
16 | Indirect sex discrimination occurs when an unjustifiable requirement or condition is applied equally to both sexes , but has a disproportionately adverse effect on one sex because the proportion of one sex which can comply with it is much smaller than the proportion of the other sex which can comply with it . |
17 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |
18 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
19 | Our home was much smaller than the house in Štanjel , which by comparison seemed a palace . |
20 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
21 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
22 | Selby et al isolated an excess of44×10 6 mononuclear cells/g UC mucosa , or 440000 per 10 mg biopsy , so both these estimates are considerably smaller than the number of lymphocytes studied with each biopsy ( 2.56×10 6 ) . |
23 | Cut a little smaller than the area of the runner , and sandwich the netting between floor and carpet . |
24 | However , the decline is smaller than the decline in the United States , where smoking among the middle class and among college students is virtually unknown . |
25 | Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing . |
26 | Another significant feature of matter is that the nuclear mass is smaller than the sum of the nucleon masses by the binding energy due to the nuclear force between them . |
27 | The report identified 67 vessels based in the port , although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s . |
28 | Or rather , as she then , standing tense in the emptiness felt it , she had become something exceedingly small , smaller than the jar of marmalade and more mobile , as small as a mouse , or as an electric spark , which was impelled to run very fast , invisibly fast , round and round the house , altering it in some way which was now imperative . |
29 | It is true that females predominate in most Latin American populations , but the difference between numbers of males and females in national populations is much smaller than the difference between them in migrant populations . |
30 | The diameter of a full stop ( period ) character in ordinary type is 0.06cm , so a ray of red light would have a wavelength 92000 times smaller than the diameter of a full stop . |