Example sentences of "small [noun pl] of less " in BNC.

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1 For smaller environments of less than 20 users , AV Image includes a Paradox PC database engine with networked multiuser file management on the server .
2 Even smaller particles of less than 2 um , called picoplankton , may also play an important role in productivity of polar waters , and indeed throughout the world 's oceans .
3 Most spectacular are huge flocks of Scandinavian greylag and pink-footed geese , which winter-roost at Strathbeg , grazing in surrounding fields ; as well as smaller numbers of less common barnacle geese , resting on their tiring journey from Spitzbergen in Norway to Solway Firth feeding grounds .
4 Because stylolites and solution seams are zones of preferential solution within a sediment , small fragments of less soluble minerals tend to accumulate along the solution seam .
5 England was still overwhelmingly rural ; 75 per cent of the population lived in small communities of less than 450 people , and many of those who lived in more urban surroundings nevertheless had only 1,000 to 2,000 neighbours and often even fewer .
6 Since large plantations occupy the best agricultural land , most of the rural population cultivate small plots of less than 0.4 ha on the steep slopes of the mountainous central region where there are thin volcanic soils .
7 Of the remaining ancient woodland , over 80 per cent consists of small copses of less than 50 acres .
8 In detail , Russell proposed completely to disfranchise small boroughs of less than 2,000 inhabitants , most of which were under the influence of a particular local patron , and some of which , like Old Sarum , were green mounds or heaps of stone .
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