Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council 's fund established after Mr Ridley blocked the deals to pay back any losses is currently less than £20m . |
| 2 | In general , this is a general point , the ionic selectivity of such channels is much less than for voltage gated channels . |
| 3 | Unless there is a very high proportion of females of child-bearing age , the CBR is usually less than 50 . |
| 4 | Jobs ' holding is now less than 50% , at 46.1% . |
| 5 | The sinker is normally less than 2.70m and resembles a surfboard . |
| 6 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 7 | Note also the increased size of the calibrated range relative to the uncalibrated one where the slope of the curve is effectively less than 45 degrees , and the decreased size where the slope is steep . |
| 8 | The Anglo population is now less than 50 per cent and continues to fall . |
| 9 | The probability that a power law can explain all three observations is therefore less than 5% . |
| 10 | However , we noted in Table 16.4 that the UK composite tax rate is currently less than 40 ( 10 , and reductions below this level receive little support from econometric studies . |
| 11 | For many companies the first pay and file deadline is now less than 12 months away . |
| 12 | By working with solutions in which the amount of polymer is considerably less than 0.1 per cent the chance of a chain being incorporated in more than one crystal is greatly reduced , thereby increasing the possibility of isolated single crystals being formed . |
| 13 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 14 | Frequency of defaecation is usually less than three per 24 hours in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis but remains variable in those with ulcerative colitis . |
| 15 | A five-year survival rate in lung cancer is still less than ten per cent . |
| 16 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 17 | However , the loss of vitamin C is invariably less if the potatoes are cooked rapidly in deep fat as opposed to slower frying in shallow fat . |
| 18 | This last point is very relative — a cheap private class in Madrid is never less than £12/hr . |