Example sentences of "less [conj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
| 2 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 3 | ‘ We must be sure that they are alive to the evidence here , no less than in the East , that socialism does not work . ’ |
| 4 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 5 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 6 | Although the variety of brachiopods in the Jurassic and Cretaceous is somewhat less than in the Palaeozoic , they are still very abundant and varied fossils . |
| 7 | It is certainly the case that crime rates in socialist countries are far less than in the USA and other capitalist societies . |
| 8 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 9 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 10 | The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK . |
| 11 | But , in 1984 , by the end of the relocation programme , house prices in the Corby area were still 15 per cent less than in the South East . |
| 12 | DO FAMILIES SUPPORT EACH OTHER MORE OR LESS THAN IN THE PAST ? |
| 13 | In many insects the number of veins is less than in the hypothetical type , and the reduction has been brought about by the degeneration or complete atrophy of a vein , or of one or more of its branches , or by the coalescence of adjacent veins . |
| 14 | Some cross-party voting could be expected , though less than in the Republic , the differentiation of our political parties being much clearer . |
| 15 | No less than in the case of arts policy , the relation between English and public policy is a matter of cultural politics . |
| 16 | Because of rotation and the fact that promotion of a subordinate is not threatening to the status of a superordinate , internal managerial competition is far less than in the Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 17 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 18 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 19 | They are clearly attracted by the knowledge that they are able to buy a public house for at least 50 per cent to 60 per cent less than in the hectic days of 1989/90 . |
| 20 | The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year . |
| 21 | The 1991 budget , adopted in January 1991 , provided for expenditure of Z2,167,000 million , 100,000 million less than in the previous year . |
| 22 | no less than in the Infants the time before , |
| 23 | Housing officers , too , will provide important links between some parts of a local community and its schools but notably less than in the period before the privatization of subsidized housing . |
| 24 | This was significantly less than in the alcohol group ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 25 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 26 | Mr Rocard won just 27 per cent of the vote on Sunday — 20 points less than in the last general election five years ago , and 11 points behind his right wing rival . |