Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report is more suited to houses of less than 200ft 2 , and built after 1900 . |
| 2 | But other artists have come to light through less likely channels , such as the pages of colour supplements . |
| 3 | Entrance fees to foreigners with less than two years service on British ships were in 1889 set at £pound20 with the obvious intention of making the cost of membership prohibitive . |
| 4 | NAC has got its machines to beta on less than $1m , its initial $1.4m coming from the likes of Autodesk chief executive officer Carol Bartz , ex-Digital Equipment Corp engineering vice president Gordon Bell , former Sun Microsystems Inc president Owen Brown , former Microsoft Corp president Mike Hallman , former NetFrame chief executive officer David Hanna , Tandem Computer Inc co-founder Jim Katzman and Mips Technologies Inc co-founder Skip Stritter among others . |
| 5 | There is seldom enough winter keep for the whole of the breeding stock , and ewe lambs are often sent away to winter in less rugged conditions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | France went to war with less than 150 planes , and Germany few more ; nevertheless , after the first month the Commandant 's opinion had already been refuted by Galliéni 's use of aircraft to spy out von Kluck 's classic mistake on the Marne . |
| 8 | We would also like to see the constraints on major new out-of-town shopping centres listed in paragraph 37 applied to centres of less that 50,000 sq m . |
| 9 | Do similar principles apply to microbes with less constant habitats ? |
| 10 | The city is only about two miles long by one mile wide , so you can walk from end to end in less than two hours . |
| 11 | Panther claims it will blast the Solo from standstill to 60mph in less than 6.0 seconds and take it on to a top speed in excess of 150mph . |
| 12 | Quick response was also a big factor — from the time the order was placed , vehicles were built and despatched to Zagreb in less than four weeks , with help from the UK government smoothing the way . |
| 13 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 14 | But what if we want to obtain data about the increased risk of cancer from exposure to doses of less than 50 mSv ? |
| 15 | Likewise , if you wished to make a single gift to ACET of less than £600 then — assuming that you are a taxpayer — you can enable ACET to get the benefit of tax relief by the same Deposited Covenant arrangement . |