Example sentences of "less [noun sg] than [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compassion fatigue among donor countries means there is less money than needed to pay Vietnamese boat people to go home . |
| 2 | However , most practitioners consider that this risk is commercially necessary in order to be able to undertake the work , and generally speaking more work than predicted on one job is balanced out by less work than predicted on another . |
| 3 | It may be significant that Paul Black was involved heavily at the London end in the design of such schemes , but again not from the total viewpoint which in any case would probably be regarded as one of the weaknesses of the London development where there was less overview than obtained in Oxford . |
| 4 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |
| 5 | Other species , including woodlarks , stone curlews and little terns , have also done well , although some , including the corncrake and golden eagle , did less well than hoped . |
| 6 | The more northerly distributed material implies far less restriction than pertained in Kent . |