Example sentences of "less [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 2 | This metal was specially developed for use in magnetic control systems and amplifiers and has a remarkably rectangular hysteresis loop in which the remanent flux is only 2.6% less than the saturation flux . |
| 3 | The water effluent from the cleaning process is discharged to sewer with a PCB content less than the level in the blood of the general population . |
| 4 | But this was less than the £2.3bn that mainland European corporations spent on UK acquisitions . |
| 5 | The ellipse is a section of a right circular cone by a plane cutting at a slope less than the slope of the cone . |
| 6 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 7 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 8 | On the other hand , UK firms only acquired a mere £4.2 billion of European assets in 1990 , which was less than the French and even the Swedes . |
| 9 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 10 | During the early 1970s Palestinian nationalism had affected villages less than the urban areas . |
| 11 | In those four boroughs where no one party had overall control there was a much more pronounced rise in Labour support , with the party 's share of the vote in Wirral increasing by over 8% despite an individual poll tax figure below government estimates and average household bills less than the previous year 's rates . |
| 12 | For example , from 1973 to 1978 the money supply rose by 306 per cent , while the cost of living rose by 123 per cent ; thereafter , for five or six years the rate of growth of the money supply was less than the rate of increase of prices , especially in 1981 and 1983–5 . |
| 13 | Early encashment values are not guaranteed and may result in the amount received being less than the original investment ( please refer to the table below ) . |
| 14 | Estimates of abundance of harp seals were presented for two periods : Norwegian authors provided the highest upper limit for the late 1960s , and the lower limit of the estimates from the analysis by a UK scientist was less than the catch of the 1967 year class of pups . |
| 15 | 18 voted in favour , less than the two-thirds vote required , and the motion was defeated . |
| 16 | In two constituencies , Vale of Glamorgan and Bristol North West , the Tory majority was less than the number of expat voters . |
| 17 | The taxpayer appealed against his 1982/3 capital gains tax assessment on the grounds that the allowable expenditure of £214,602 was less than the amount of the £246,699 capital distribution , and he could therefore elect under s 72(4) to reduce the amount distributed by the entire allowable expenditure on his C Ltd shares ; and that the capital distribution , at 15.58% of the total consideration , was ‘ small , as compared with the value of the shares in respect of which it was distributed ’ ( s 72(2) ) . |
| 18 | With the ICAEW examinations the tutors would be up in arms if any referral subject had a pass rate less than the rate for students sitting all papers . |
| 19 | But such responses are inadequate , being less than the best that God intended , and has provided for . |
| 20 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 21 | The South East , the South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands were again the regions showing increases less than the national average for unemployment as a percentage of the working population . |
| 22 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 23 | I soon found that different dye lots knitted to different sizes , so that stripes in the dark colours needed four rows less than the lighter ones to make my four inches . |
| 24 | One of the sub-editors , a former vicar with a most un-Christian vocabulary , later pointed out that this was less than the Church of England paid its clergy . |
| 25 | In practice , 70 per cent of employers pay their workers less than the legal minimum wage , according to Mr Masduki . |
| 26 | ‘ Despite a difficult trading position caused by a considerable drop in customer numbers , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the strenuous efforts of the management team , staff members of the associated Preservation Society have brought success in reducing costs to a level less than the revenue that we have earned , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Tajan predicted in November that Ader Tajan would make a total of FFr310–330 million in 1992 , less than the FFr350 million he had hoped for but enough to cover annual wage costs of FFr13 million . |
| 28 | Management claimed they could , but the women consistently produced less than the required targets . |
| 29 | However many millions it ruled , Akbar 's Empire in the end changed history less than the foundation of the East India Company , and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen had greater repercussions than the thousand-volume encyclopedias of China . |
| 30 | The Philippines ' GDP will probably grow by 1% this year at best , less than the government 's latest ( reduced ) forecast of 3.2% . |