Example sentences of "[det] be less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is less than one . |
| 2 | But this was less than the £2.3bn that mainland European corporations spent on UK acquisitions . |
| 3 | While , however , female GP referrals averaged more severe social problems per case ( 1.34 ) than male GP referrals ( 1.12 ) , this was less than other female referrals ( 1.44 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was less than the absolute growth in part-time male employment in services which more than doubled from 4000 to nearly 9000 . |
| 6 | Some sections incubated with EGF monoclonal antibody and EGF peptide showed minimal staining in the cytoplasm but this was less than grade 1 in our grading system and therefore did not interferewith our quantitation . |
| 7 | No stamp duty will be payable if the consideration for the latter is less than £60,000. ( b ) Completion of the abstract In those cases where it is recited that the wife has married the new husband , a marked copy of the marriage certificate or marked abstract thereof should be placed with the title documents ( Precedents 34 and 38 ) . |
| 8 | So the sum has to be one , times a half , is greater than two , which it clearly is n't , cos one times a half is a half , and that is less than two . |
| 9 | That is less than fourteen students a course . |
| 10 | ‘ But that 's less than three months away ! |
| 11 | Notice that an incoming elasticity is less than unity , and that 's less than one , as a result textiles , textile industry in the Netherlands is going to be a declining sector in the economy , right , as incomes er per capita G D P rises , the textile sector will benefit , alright , because , because human demand for textiles either they 're demanding proportionately less of any increases in incomes . |
| 12 | That 's less than one placement for every ten homes over the quarter , an average of less than ten in total per month . |
| 13 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 14 | If you thought that was less than perfectly thought-out and organised , wait until you see what job evaluation and performance-related have in store for all of us ( see page 20 ) . |
| 15 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 16 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |