Example sentences of "less than [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satellite studies of the Amazon rainforest by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) show that the area being felled each year is far less than previously estimated . |
| 2 | The UK 's reserves of lowland peat bogs are far less than previously thought , according to a new survey by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC ) — the scientific umbrella group for the government 's three national conservation agencies in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 3 | In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose . |
| 4 | Journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington post filed innumerable stories , often drawn from anonymous sources , and including less than completely substantiated allegations of criminal behaviour by public officials . |
| 5 | Indeed the only blips on the horizon are the reluctance of the natural trumpets to ‘ really go for the burn ’ in the opening and closing choruses and ‘ Fecit potentiam ’ , and a couple of less than clearly focused notes from the tenor Marcus Brutscher , in the ‘ Deposuit ’ , in the context of what is otherwise a truly virtuoso performance . |
| 6 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |
| 8 | And he did it through a method that was little less than divinely inspired . |
| 9 | Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research . |
| 10 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
| 11 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 12 | So this recording , though mainly reproducing the various perspectives in effortless fashion , does occasionally sound less than ideally balanced . |
| 13 | The biggest single item was defence spending , at Rbs96,563 million , Rbs2,000 million less than originally proposed but still Rbs25,000 million more than the 1990 figure . |
| 14 | Because bills are now lower , fewer people face large increases , so the number of people entitled to a reduction will be less than originally expected . |
| 15 | The minimum for spending was set at 244,000,000 million zloty — 7,000,000 million zloty less than originally envisaged , and it was anticipated that revenues could drop by 10,000,000 zloty past the originally projected 227,000,000 zloty . |
| 16 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 17 | It included $2,890 million for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) programme ( $1,700 million less than originally requested by the Defence Department ) ; $2,350 million for the B-2 Stealth bomber project ; $688 million for the MX and Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile programmes ( although no funds were authorized for MX rail deployment ) ; $1,840 million for the purchase of 52 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles ; and $964 million for the development of a new generation of fighter aircraft . |
| 18 | The cost of repairing the damage caused by the City bomb could be as little as £300 million — less than originally thought — according to surveyors and insurance experts , writes Matthew Doull , City Staff . |
| 19 | Recent studies have shown that the risk of continued obesity is less than originally thought ( Shapiro et al . |