Example sentences of "less than [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 2 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 3 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 4 | The first reason is because people experience it much less than they used to and just do not know how to react — it is beyond their experience . |
| 5 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 6 | HOUSEHOLDERS in the lowest council tax bands in Fife and Borders regions will pay less than they did under the poll tax , but those in higher bands will find themselves worse off . |
| 7 | That means we have to eat less than they do in order to shed weight . |
| 8 | For example , we walk less than we used to as most families have cars and the launderette or the washing machine has replaced the scrubbing board . |
| 9 | It 's less than we pay in Wolverhampton . |
| 10 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 11 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 12 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 13 | You 'll get shares today for far less than you paid for your present stake , and for astronomically less than their true value . |
| 14 | His dilemma lay ‘ in always having rather less than you need by the standards to which you are brought up ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 16 | They will make less than he does of that part of Eliot which was a ‘ good ventriloquist ’ . |
| 17 | It came to her now just how little she knew about him — much less than he knew about her life , which was to a great extent an open book , despite his determination to believe she had a dark side . |
| 18 | Yesterday the shares fell to 124p , 16p less than he paid for them . |
| 19 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 20 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 21 | But his bank wants their money back ; the business will be sold for less than he paid for it , and Peter will be left with debts running into six figures |
| 22 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 23 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 24 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 25 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 26 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 27 | Cumulative selection will see to it that animals are well fitted to outrun their predators or outwit their prey , no less than it sees to it that they are well fitted to the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 28 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 29 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |