Example sentences of "there be less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today there are less than 50,000 . |
| 2 | At present there are less than ten laboratories in Britain that can isolate the organism , and most of these are working as research units rather than as service units prepared to isolate chlamydia as part of the standard diagnostic screening that should be available . |
| 3 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 4 | Sayre states that in most cases , there are less than four resulting alternative letter strings , and usually one . |
| 5 | We learned much about out bobsled team , even though there are less than 100 active bobsledders and only one bobsled run in our country . |
| 6 | In all the chain there are less than ten square kilometres left of glacier , or about a fortieth of what there is in the Alps , though , after many years of shrinkage , the Pyrenean ice-fields are said to have spread themselves a little since 1950 . |
| 7 | If the reason for change is not one of the preceding , and there are less than 8 weeks to your departure date , then we will credit you with 10% of the cost of the changed holiday ( if less than 14 days to departure , this will be raised to 20% ) to be used in the purchase of any other Falcon Sailing holiday within 24 months . |
| 8 | If there are less than 4 days of sickness in a row there is no PIW and there is no SSP involvement . |
| 9 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
| 10 | Actually , considering there are less than 100 Britons in China , about one for every 10,000,000 Chinese , we 've done pretty well for meeting compatriots . |
| 11 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 12 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 13 | Credit sale was exempt if there were less than five instalments , and was generally subject to less regulation . |
| 14 | There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins . |
| 15 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 16 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 17 | Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 . |
| 18 | When there were less than 30 days to delivery , no further daily volatility estimates were computed . |
| 19 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |
| 20 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 21 | Estimates of total enrolment vary , but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800 . |
| 22 | There 's less than a thousand pounds left . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , before the First World War , over half of all world trade was in agricultural goods , whereas now , there 's less than fourteen percent . |
| 24 | Well , there 's less and less work and the work that does seem to be about is that competitively priced that |
| 25 | The continuation of the securitisation when there is less than 10% remaining is quite simply impractical . |
| 26 | The continued Raincheck system will guarantee anyone a refund if there is less than two hours of play on Centre Court on any one day . |
| 27 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 28 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 29 | But , just as there is less and less surprise at managers studying for masters and doctoral qualifications , there is equally diminishing resistance to informal learning events involving learning sets , time out reviews , even one-to-one coaching . |
| 30 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |