Example sentences of "to be less [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To win Objective 1 status , the regional economic output per head of population has to be less than 75 per cent of the EC average .
2 With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism .
3 ( Although there is no universally accepted set of grammatical categories , the size of tagsets used in corpora tend to be less than 200 .
4 There are thought to be less than 200 pairs of Barn Owls in the Thames and Chiltern area with 45 in Oxfordshire , 35 in Gloucestershire , 38 in Berkshire and 19 in Buckinghamshire .
5 Despite this it was to be less than two years before the Party adopted the idea of the " People 's Front " in its entirety , including the help of Liberals and even of Conservatives who were opposed to the National Government .
6 The period between the selected control visit and the previous visit had to be less than six months .
7 It 's going to be less than fifty .
8 Whatever the resistance of this comes to it 's going to be less than fifty ohms .
9 Erm if it 's more , well this is ridiculous because we were getting , that means getting some more current going through there has sort of changed everything else , so it 's going to be less than fifty ohms .
10 At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed .
11 As the polar headgroups of the lipid bilayer will account for some 6 to 10 of this distance , the overall stalk length , from the base of domain 2 to the cell surface , is likely to be less than 10 .
12 When a higher-level index is first added , it can be expected to be less than one track in size .
13 By the end of 1988 the lifetime output was calculated to be less than 22 per cent of its original design capacity .
14 Only eight consultants held one to one teaching or tutorials for their house officers and most consultants estimated their total teaching time to be less than 30 minutes a week .
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