Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to be less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are thought to be less than 200 pairs of Barn Owls in the Thames and Chiltern area with 45 in Oxfordshire , 35 in Gloucestershire , 38 in Berkshire and 19 in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | When a higher-level index is first added , it can be expected to be less than one track in size . |
| 3 | Volunteer labour was needed to reduce the cost of the construction of 66 games facilities to $18,000,000 , at a time when Cuba 's international reserves were estimated to be less than $100,000,000 and the national debt stood at $7,000 million . |
| 4 | The cost of buying a complete system is claimed to be less than £1m — less than buying a licence for an IBM mainframe software upgrade . |
| 5 | It 's going to be less than fifty . |
| 6 | Whatever the resistance of this comes to it 's going to be less than fifty ohms . |
| 7 | Erm if it 's more , well this is ridiculous because we were getting , that means getting some more current going through there has sort of changed everything else , so it 's going to be less than fifty ohms . |
| 8 | So if you like the first quarter will probable it 'll be pro rata that 's going to be less because it 's it 's only part of . |
| 9 | Only a slight change is forecast for the area of cereals this year which at 46,300 hectares is estimated to be less than 1pc below that for last year . |
| 10 | By the end of 1988 the lifetime output was calculated to be less than 22 per cent of its original design capacity . |
| 11 | In addition , Wagaddon , publishers of the magazine , had its own legal bill , but this was said to be less than £35,000 . |
| 12 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |