Example sentences of "from less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better value for money would result from less use of custody for many classes of offender . |
| 2 | A comparison of social product per head in the 1950s with that in 1986 ( in current dinars , unadjusted for regional differences in the cost of living ) shows a significant improvement for Montenegro ( from less than 60 per cent of the average to 77 per cent ) and , at the other end of the scale , for Vojvodina ( from less than the Yugoslav average to 21 per cent above it ) . |
| 3 | BASF says the recorders should use its chromium dioxide tape which suffers from less background hiss . |
| 4 | The savings come from less absenteeism , lower insurance costs , more productivity , fewer deaths ( Weis calls this ‘ much lower rates of worker mortality ’ ) , not so much deterioration in furniture , carpets and so on , including office machines , less maintenance and less spent on air-conditioning and heating . |
| 5 | At all other times , but particularly in the change from less to greater liberality and vice versa , then obscenity becomes the target . |
| 6 | We could even insist that there is an evolutionary transition not only of skeletal structures , but an evolution from less to more efficient body morphologies . |
| 7 | Both : Mike and Spence from Less Stress |
| 8 | But supposing those people had some other form of livelihood ; the technology to produce more food from less land ; the economic means to invest in conservation measures ; the political power to gain access to land planted out to export crops , or the international , political power to get a fair price for their country 's exports on the global commodity markets . |
| 9 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 10 | Thus , if we restrict our attention for the moment to pupils for whom a statement is made , the proportion ranges across LEAs from less than 1 per cent of the school population to nearly 3 per cent . |
| 11 | The second accrues from less time spent on billing . |
| 12 | The volume suffers from less than immaculate editing and the quality of many of the illustrations is poor . |
| 13 | Two-stroke units for microlights develop more power from less weight and are generally cheaper to replace than their four- stroke equivalents , but they do demand careful attention . |
| 14 | At constant ( 1976 ) prices , the sales of all the industrial co-operatives rose from 5,200 million pesetas in 1965 to 28,750 million pesetas in 1979 ; and their share of the domestic market rose from less than 1 per cent in 1960 to 10.6 per cent in 1976 . |
| 15 | This is not the way children necessarily learn it , nor is this order an inevitable progression from less to more difficult . |
| 16 | Though one can hide from less than Rivieraesque weather in the 1989 Fleet Walk Centre , which offers ‘ leisure shopping ’ , more characteristic is Torre , the old quarter with its antique shops . |
| 17 | Published estimates of primary production are generally very low ; values of annual production of carbon per square metre , tabled by Grainger ( 1979 ) , range from less than 1 g in the Arctic Ocean to 10–100g off West Greenland and in channels and fjords among the Canadian islands . |
| 18 | Etching times may vary from less than a minute to over half an hour . |