Example sentences of "less than [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statement that the tribunal has made an ‘ error of law ’ means no more or less than that the construction placed upon the term by the court is preferred to that of the tribunal . |
| 2 | Consequently ΔS M per mole of lattice sites ( or equivalent volume ) will be very much less than and the contribution of the combinatorial entropy to the mixing process in a polymer solution is not as large as that for solutions of small molecules when calculated in terms of volume fractions and expressed as per mole of sites . |
| 3 | The value of the offer made by the bonorum emptor would certainly have taken into account the fact that the land was subject to trust ; the consequence of the lower offer would be that creditors would receive rather less than if no trust existed . |
| 4 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 5 | When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us , so the time that wave crest takes to reach us will be less than when the star was stationary . |