Example sentences of "[noun pl] of less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections for mayors and councillors in 359 towns and in 5,600 communes of less than 10,000 inhabitants , were held on Oct. 14 , followed by a run-off on Oct. 21 . |
| 2 | In short , there appeared to be a cutoff at five years , such that those with responsibility time spans of less than five years felt they needed a manager with a responsibility time span of more than five years . |
| 3 | This restriction does not apply to foreign trips of less than one month or arrangements for the child to live permanently outside England and Wales which are governed by Sched 2 , para 19 ( see p215 ) . |
| 4 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 5 | 33% of our patients had sweat chloride concentrations of less than 60 mmol/L , which is thought to be normal . |
| 6 | Census data for a group of seven countries , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , El Salvador , Honduras , Peru and Venezuela , for the 1960s and 1970s , show that the number ( if agricultural units of less than 20 hectares in these countries rose from 4.7 million to 6.5 million , that is by 38.5 per cent ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 7 | This was mainly because of an increase in the number of small hospitals , with 40% of the total in 1976 involving units of less than 50 beds . |
| 8 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |
| 9 | Because stylolites and solution seams are zones of preferential solution within a sediment , small fragments of less soluble minerals tend to accumulate along the solution seam . |
| 10 | These grants are normally paid only for items of £30 and over and are only available to people receiving Income support , if they have savings of less than £500 . |
| 11 | Providing there 's a condition attached , that they have savings of less than two hundred pounds . |
| 12 | For smaller environments of less than 20 users , AV Image includes a Paradox PC database engine with networked multiuser file management on the server . |
| 13 | Then it came to a contest between the government ( with reserves of less than $10 billion , on some estimates ) and the currency market ( with its turnover of $1 trillion a day ) . |
| 14 | Many institutions of less than 150 , either free standing or in collaboration with others , have offered and will continue to offer a range of courses well matched to the needs of the student population as they are at the present time . |
| 15 | The passing of the Insolvent Debtors Act in August 1844 ( 7 & 8 Victoria cap 96 ) , abolishing imprisonment for debts of less than £20 , however , was widely welcomed . |
| 16 | Small businesses , which are those with new rateable values of less than £5,000 , will be limited to a 15% increase each year , once inflation has been added . |
| 17 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 18 | In four patients with positive hydrogen breath tests treated with oral metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) for seven days , fasting and post sucrose breath hydrogen excretion decreased to normal values of less than 12 ppm , which was associated with a reduction in faecal fat excretion in all four patients from 77.5 ( 8.4 ) ×10 - 3 to 57.7 ( 15 ) g fat/g stool/24 hours×10 - 3 ( p=NS ) . |
| 19 | Farnborough , who took West Ham to a reply in the FA Cup last year , are in desperate financial trouble with debts of £50,000 and crowds of less than 500 this season . |
| 20 | The crystal structure shows that CsA binds to CypA with the side chains of MeBmt-1 , Abu-2 , Sar-3 , MeLeu-9 , MeLeu-10 and MeVal-11 of CsA making contacts of less than 4 with the CypA residues Arg 55 , Phe 60 , Met 61 , Gln 63 , Gly 72 , Ala 101 , Asn 102 , Ala 103 , Gln 111 , Phe 113 , Trp 121 , Leu 122 , His 126 ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 21 | The report is more suited to houses of less than 200ft 2 , and built after 1900 . |
| 22 | These are concerned with two specific types of temporary worker , persons on fixed-term contracts of less than 12 months ( the then qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal ) and agency-supplied workers . |
| 23 | The instructor 's award is to be subdivided into those able to instruct on cliffs of less than 40 metres and 40 metres plus , and groups of less than 50 abseilers ( one coachload ? ) , and more than 50 people ( multiple coach loads ) . |
| 24 | The SCAN paper distinguishes — exposition : to the whole class EW ; to groups of five or more En — dialogue : teacher with groups of less than five D ; ( see page 98 for a summary of SCAN notation ) . |
| 25 | This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole . |
| 26 | Japan 's trade surplus with the USA in 1989 had been $49,000 million ( exports of less than $100,000 million against imports just exceeding $50,000 million ) . |
| 27 | One very useful feature was the lack of glass braces which are often found around the inside openings of less robustly built aquariums , as this allowed much more flexibility in fitting items such as the filter . |
| 28 | Minitech UK Ltd , Derby , claims its Warp Drive disk array can improve input/output processing speeds by up to 300% with access times of less than three milliseconds for Unix sites with 4Gb or more database data . |
| 29 | The north , due to fewer hours of less warm sunshine , and more severe winters , does not have as many or as big carp as the south . |
| 30 | with grate areas of less than 8.5 square feet , ’ said Derek . |