Example sentences of "for less " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 2 | The question is then , wrote Harsnet , whether to settle for less or start again . |
| 3 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 4 | In future we 'll be asking for less . ’ |
| 5 | Prices will be announced at Motorfair , but as with Skoda and Lada you should be able to buy this Escort-size car for less than a Fiesta . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 8 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 9 | The house , thought to be worth about £3,000 by the lawyers , in fact went for less . |
| 10 | The trade unions fear that wage demands may have to be lowered because of the refugees ' greater flexibility and readiness to work for less money . |
| 11 | Third , you can get a real computer for less . |
| 12 | In other words , it is not only cheaper to buy the parent company 's shares , buying them gets you a share of the non-telecom activities for less than nothing . |
| 13 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 14 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 15 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 16 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 17 | However , acquiring a taste for less salt may take time in order to become used to a low-salt taste . |
| 18 | ‘ The delay has cost £20,000 and we can buy a gold door to replace it for less than that . ’ |
| 19 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 20 | He placed the motto ‘ We sell for less ’ above the entrance to each store and banned wholesalers , passing on the savings to his customers . |
| 21 | After more than 16 hours of auctioning , every one of the 1,000 lots had found buyers , with none being sold for less than low estimate and many soaring to 10 times estimate . |
| 22 | Average working hours have dropped by 40 minutes over the last year , implying either the need for less overtime or further indications that management is keeping a tighter control on costs while continuing to improve productivity . |
| 23 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 24 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 25 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
| 26 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 27 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 28 | By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers . |
| 29 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 30 | As the bulk of the material was culled from just three radio sessions , this proved that an album of quality could still be made for less than the cost of recording your average chart single . |