Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passing of the Insolvent Debtors Act in August 1844 ( 7 & 8 Victoria cap 96 ) , abolishing imprisonment for debts of less than £20 , however , was widely welcomed . |
| 2 | In on large study , the perinatal mortality risk increased by 20 per cent for the infants of smokers of less than 20 per day and by 35 per cent for smokers of 20 or more per day , compared with that of non-smokers. ( 5 ) The risk is greater in women who are poor , anaemic or have had several children . |
| 3 | These lifted some of the restrictions attaching to contracts , such as those involving precarious employment outside the state sector or fixed-term and other like kinds of less secure employment . |
| 4 | We can not hear a break between sounds of less than one tenth of a second . |
| 5 | It would therefore appear that where , for example , a solicitor on behalf of his client commences a personal injury action which includes a claim for damages of less than £50,000 by way of writ in the High Court , the proceedings are bound to be struck out on the basis that the solicitor ought to have known of the provision contained in art 5(1) of the 1991 Order . |
| 6 | The SCAN paper distinguishes — exposition : to the whole class EW ; to groups of five or more En — dialogue : teacher with groups of less than five D ; ( see page 98 for a summary of SCAN notation ) . |
| 7 | This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole . |
| 8 | Then it came to a contest between the government ( with reserves of less than $10 billion , on some estimates ) and the currency market ( with its turnover of $1 trillion a day ) . |
| 9 | Options with lives of less than 90 days tend to be overpriced . |
| 10 | Now to calculate the hazard ratio on these two groups , those patients with counts of greater or equal to twenty one were two and half times more likely to die of their disease than those with counts of less than twenty one . |
| 11 | The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said that while much of the SORP was appropriate to the needs of larger charities , it feared those with incomes of less than £100,000 a year may ignore it because of the extra administration , cost and complexity it involved . |
| 12 | The asteroids , with diameters of less than 1000 kilometres , were already cold 4.5 x 109 years ago . |
| 13 | Thus , it can be calculated from the figures that in 1951–52 over 72% of all WEA ‘ centres ’ in the Eastern District were in places with populations of less than 5,000 ; only 10% were in places with over 20,000 people . |
| 14 | Towns with populations of less than 200,000 are unlikely to receive such a charter although Cambridge , on account of its standing as a university town received city status by Royal Charter on the 21st March 1951 . |
| 15 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 16 | Smaller authorities with budgets of less than 15 million were excluded before 1991 . |
| 17 | On fraud , the report says that the focus of regulation and compensation should be retail investors , as more than three-quarters of compensation payments are made to investors with claims of less than £50,000 . |
| 18 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 19 | On Nov. 1 the Virginian gun control law went into effect , requiring purchasers of handguns with barrels of less than five inches or of semi-automatic weapons to produce identification , and for the sale to be recorded to check for purchasers with a possible criminal background . |
| 20 | The rate for loans of less than £60,000 drops to 8.5 per cent from 9.25 . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the Lambeth offers an exceptional 2.25 per cent off for one year for loans of less than 60 per cent . |
| 22 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |
| 23 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |
| 24 | The highest prevalences have been recorded in dogs of less than six months of age , with the fewest worms in adult animals . |
| 25 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |
| 26 | ( As late as 1906 a majority of the industrial workforce were in establishments of less than 100 employees . ) |
| 27 | A control on the front panel adjusts the operating time between limits of less than one second and four minutes approximately . |
| 28 | The cost method is generally used to account for interests of less than 20% . |
| 29 | The report is more suited to houses of less than 200ft 2 , and built after 1900 . |
| 30 | The question which remains is that of minimum sample size and , in general , other researchers have tended to avoid applying formulae to texts of less than 150 words in length . |