By contrast, a gun will allow a pilot to attack hostile forces that are less than 300 feet from friendly ground forces. |
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But should the team go home with anything less than the World Cup trophy, the press will be baying for his head. |
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Two police officers had been assaulted in New York less than a week before the sitdown. |
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According to news reports, Barnett has apologized but been otherwise less than forthcoming. |
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In this new climate anything less than anti-abortion absolutism is unacceptable. |
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In actuality, there were less than 300 U.S. soldiers in the valley at any given time. |
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Of the approximately 55,000 square miles of land in New York State, less than 500 of them are in New York City. |
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The theft, which was over in less than a minute, took place in a North London liquor store. |
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The media and academics love to portray these voters as the typical independent when they represent less than half of them. |
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Ten years ago I bought a catastrophic policy for even less than that, despite an autoimmune disease and raging asthma. |
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Their marriage was annulled less than a year after their June 1984 wedding. |
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In less than sixty seconds he would become the focus of a hidden and annihilating fire from a semicircle of houses. |
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The AARP estimates that no less than 60 percent of Republican primary voters are retirees. |
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When Sweeney first meets the baker, her business is in the dumps and her pies are less than appetizing. |
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Throughout the period monks remained a very small proportion of the population, usually less than one per cent. |
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The legislation provides that the number of elected members of a parish council shall not be less than five. |
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The Severn Estuary and most of the embayments around the channel are less than 10 m in depth. |
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During the winter months, which are the dullest, less than 20 hours of monthly sunshine have occasionally been recorded. |
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Another view considers systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free. |
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No less than four standard-bearers went before them, carrying huge crimson banners emblazoned with the golden lion. |
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If the gap between the blades is less than the thickness of the grass, a clean cut can still be made. |
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Both are relatively quiet, typically producing less than 75 decibels, while a gasoline lawn mower can be 95 decibels or more. |
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Operating at normal power line frequencies, universal motors are often found in a range less than 1000 watts. |
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He was succeeded by Abdus Sattar, who served in office for less than a year. |
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Book publishers represent less than a sixth of the publishers in the United States. |
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The per capita costs in the UK are less than for many other European countries that carry out similar censuses. |
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However, rare banknotes still sell for much less than comparable rare coins. |
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While the length of the thesis varies according to the discipline, it is rarely less than 150 pages, and often substantially more. |
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These teaching terms are shorter than those of most other British universities, and their total duration amounts to less than half the year. |
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The programme targets recent graduates with less than a year of work experience who plan to start a career in finance. |
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At Winchester, during the Norman period, an entire cathedral of unprecedented size was built from scratch in less than 20 years. |
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This is the first in popular culture to portray King Richard as less than perfect. |
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Due to Swedish law, stores in Sweden cannot sell cider with less than 15 percentage juice by volume under the name Cider. |
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He later told Drummond that he had made less than two hundred pounds on all his plays together. |
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She died on 3 February 1658, less than four months after giving birth to daughter Katherine, who also died. |
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Milton no less than Davenant wished to write the English epic, and chose blank verse as his form. |
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He underwent surgery but died less than a week later on 18 January 1936, at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. |
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Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method. |
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It enjoyed a record run in the West End, but ran for less than two years on Broadway. |
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Aspects had a run of four years in London, but closed after less than a year on Broadway. |
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The label was successful while Led Zeppelin existed, but folded less than three years after they disbanded. |
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Waters claimed that, without Antonioni's constant changes to the music, they would have completed the work in less than a week. |
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Sales of house records dwindled and, by 1988, the genre was selling less than a tenth as many records as at the height of the style's popularity. |
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After the death of Constantius II, Julian the Apostate, a bibliophile intellectual, ruled briefly for less than three years. |
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Ticket sales during the pool stages and finals of the same tournament was less than a million. |
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Discounting managers who took charge of less than ten games, the least successful manager was George Burley, with just three wins in 14 games. |
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In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs and with eight wickets in hand. |
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Excluding these, the European Tour offers less than 50 percent as much prize money as the PGA Tour. |
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Afterwards, he refocused on the European Tour, but has consistently played less than a full schedule. |
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At the ceremonial opening dinner, the PGA of America played two videos that were seen as less than hospitable by the European team. |
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The fight was agreed to less than three months after Mayweather had said he planned to retire following a victory over Oscar De La Hoya. |
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Khan regrouped and was temporarily able to go back at Garcia, but with less than a minute left in the round Khan was dropped a third time. |
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On 5 September 2011, Button opened a restaurant on Beulah Street in Harrogate called Victus, but it closed after less than a year in trading. |
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Regazzoni came close to taking the team's first win but finished second, less than a second behind race winner Jody Scheckter. |
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Scotland hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, less than two months before the referendum. |
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It was the first time that Ireland had bowled out a county for less than a hundred. |
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By 1936, their trade was less than half its value in 1913, reflecting the slump in demand for Welsh coal. |
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Halo and Banga have recently indicated that the elastase content of the pancreas of human arteriosclerotics is substantially less than normal. |
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The team has won three-quarters of its games at home, but less than half of away games. |
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Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace. |
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So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account. |
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I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal. |
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The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. |
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Thou lookest for firmitude and vigour in those graces, which thou wilt allow in thy best disciples, no less than truth. |
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The tool, a clawlike gripper less than a millimeter in diameter, could grab cells from tissue for a biopsy, for example. |
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The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man. |
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Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on. |
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Paul's cremains arrived by limo service less than an hour before the living room memorial. |
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The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas. |
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Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. |
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If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second. |
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Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius. |
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The least sunny areas are the mountains, some parts of which average less than 1200 hours of sunshine annually. |
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Since the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the powers of the House of Lords have been very much less than those of the House of Commons. |
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Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted. |
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The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common. |
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American bison tend to graze more, and browse less than their European relatives. |
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It takes less than two hours to get to York from London by rail, with at least 25 direct trains each weekday. |
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His forces, including Hun and Alan auxiliaries, may in the end have totalled rather less than 15,000 men. |
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It was ended by a payment which though large was less than one of the richest senators could have produced. |
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Another ealdorman, Wiglaf, subsequently ruled for less than two years before being driven out of Mercia by Egbert. |
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His return to England less than two years later would be in very different circumstances. |
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Ralph's authority seems also to have been less than his predecessors in the earldom, and this was likely the cause of the revolt. |
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And the effect of such notes, as inflaters of the currency, would be less than the effect of greenbacks. |
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Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds. |
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Brought to you by ISLAMOPHOBIAC DAILY Whoever thought this out is nothing less than a genius. The Muslims are not happy. |
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The UK therefore receives less than half what France gets, despite a similar sized economy and population. |
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Their first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further sons and daughters. |
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Britain maintained a standing army of 220,000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, of whom less than half were available for campaigning. |
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After dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, he reduced the number of German states from 300 to less than 50, prior to the German Unification. |
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When transports were finally allowed to carry the Jacobins to France, less than a third were still alive. |
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Royal Yugoslav Army was thoroughly defeated in less than two weeks and the country was occupied. |
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However, since the Great Irish Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to less than one tenth of the population of the British Isles. |
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The crucial work on palaeomagnetism was already under way less than ten years after Holmes's first edition. |
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The Call duck has also received a place as the world's smallest domestic duck breed, as it weighs less than 1kg. |
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This is a panlinguistic phenomenon that applies to Chinese no less than to any other developed writing systems. |
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The oldest fossils tentatively assigned to this genus are from the Late Miocene, less than 10 million years ago. |
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For instance, less than a half of those species found in Turkey are actually native. |
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Lichens often have a regular but very slow growth rate of less than a millimeter per year. |
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Precipitation patterns vary widely, ranging from several meters of water per year to less than a millimeter. |
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Young people met to make their plans, no less than leading national figures and experts in law. |
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Variations with periods of less than half a day are called harmonic constituents. |
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In contrast, a weathered ridge is one with a rounded crest and with sides sloping at less than 40 degrees. |
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In most cases, the majority of a basaltic LIP's volume is emplaced in less than 1 million years. |
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This event happened in less than 10,000 years and occurred just before Pangaea started to break apart. |
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The average age was 25, with less than 20 percent of seamen under twenty years old. |
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Income per person in the South dropped to less than 40 percent of that of the North, a condition that lasted until well into the 20th century. |
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Forage fish filter feed on plankton and are usually less than 10 centimetres long. |
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Typically, when salinity levels are less than 6 ppt, larvae will not settle and metamorphose into spat. |
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Annual sunshine rates are slightly less than the regional average of 1,600 hours. |
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These climates are characterized by actual precipitation less than a threshold value set equal to the potential evapotranspiration. |
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In contesting elections, independent candidates are required by law to spend less than candidates nominated by a party. |
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The Act made it mandatory for all police forces covering a populace of less than 10,000 to merge with the county police. |
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It can cover the entire county in less than 20 minutes and reach the Isles of Scilly in 28 minutes. |
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Most were of comparatively low power, at less than 50 kilowatts, leading to patchy coverage of the country. |
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Victoria's father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year old. |
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The band rehearsed for less than two weeks before the performance, and according to Mitchell, they never connected musically. |
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When the upcurrent amount of sediment is less than the amount being carried away, erosion occurs. |
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In the UK, fatality rates per mile or kilometre are slightly less than those for walking. |
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Starting 1 February 2012 he improved on this by completing the 7 on 7 in under 120 hours or in less than five days. |
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Pregnancy lasts an average of 280 to 285 days or a little less than 9 and one half months. |
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Some of the feldspar phenocrysts are more than 1 cm long, but most are less than 5 mm. |
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Additionally, Ryde Esplanade and Lake railway stations are on the path, and Shanklin and Sandown stations are less than 750m away. |
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Males live 4 years less than the females whose maximum longevity is about 17 years. |
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In Finland, there are about 6,000 reindeer herders, most of whom keep small herds of less than 50 reindeer to raise additional income. |
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However, this energy is far less than is commonly stated and only effectively increases accuracy by counteracting the downward force on the tail. |
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Any operation of ropes should obey the principle of safe working load, which is usually much less than its ultimate strength. |
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First, the plotting of data by Bard and others suggests a small step, less than 6 m, in sea level near the onset of the Younger Dryas. |
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It was ended by a payment that, though large, was less than one of the richest senators could have produced. |
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Slightly less than half of the residents of Hamburg are members of a religion. |
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To suggest the dynasty owed its accession to murder would have been less than sensitive. |
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The fight between France and Spain in Europe caused the first plunder of the city in less than five hundred years after the previous sack. |
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city's population declined to less than 50,000 people. |
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French domination lasted less than 20 years, and it differed from previous foreign control of the Italian peninsula. |
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By way of comparison, in Denmark, Norway and Iceland it only accounts for less than 13 per cent of total employment. |
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Between 1821 and 1852, no less than 4,300 murders were perpetrated in Corsica. |
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The war lasted for less than a month, causing fewer than 100 casualties, most of which were through friendly fire. |
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His opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God and that this was heretical. |
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Then there's the mob of plonkos who sleep down at the dockside, less than 700 yards from the city's Town Hall. |
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By vilifying them and depicting them as somewhat less than human, the Chinese could justify their conduct and still any qualms of conscience. |
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Rae used a pragmatic approach of traveling by land on foot and dogsled, and typically employed less than ten people in his exploration parties. |
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A casino is one big pokie machine, programmed to pay out less than a dollar in a dollar. |
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The second, managed by Francesco and later his son, survived until 1443, a little less than a decade after Averardo's death. |
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A quarter of the population is less than 15 years old and about a sixth are aged 60 and older. |
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But the war affected Mauritius much less than the wars of the eighteenth century. |
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In less than a day, they took Goa from Ismail Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies, who surrendered on 10 December. |
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The treaty was renewed no less than nine times, but did not restrain some Xiongnu tuqi from raiding Han borders. |
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Mining and manufacturing employ less than twenty percent and only about five percent is dedicated to agriculture. |
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Collectively these 488 organized municipalities cover less than half of the state's territory. |
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By the final edition the number of his maps in the atlas declined to less than 50 as updated new maps were added. |
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These begin their growth much as guard hairs do, but change their mode of growth, usually when less than half the length of the hair has emerged. |
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The population of the island is less than 1,500 and consists mostly of Buryats, the island's aboriginal people. |
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However, Australian Thoroughbred racing defines colts and fillies as less than four years old. |
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They are often a staple among impoverished families in provinces, as they are easier to cultivate and cost less than rice. |
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This allows the peanuts to dry slowly to a little less than a third of their original moisture level over a period of three to four days. |
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A less than ideal drying environment encourages the proliferation of pests in the bark, which may then require treatment by fumigation. |
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Some tourists are less than respectful of the city's cultural heritage, according to Nardella. |
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A 1603 report stated that of 58,800 Indians working at Potosi, 5100 were mitayos, or less than one in ten. |
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Minor leaguers and players with less than three years of service time remain pseudoslaves. |
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The mayor pulled out of the race for Senate after numerous opinion polls had him polling at less than 10 percent. |
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Precipitation is also somewhat less than farther south, except at some of the higher elevations. |
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The battle lasted less than one hour and Zwingli was among the 500 casualties in the Zurich army. |
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This is in contrast to the less than 23 percent loyalist clergy in the four southern colonies. |
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While all methods of birth control have some potential adverse effects, the risk is less than that of pregnancy. |
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The quadrennial election of Chief Magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excitement. |
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Policy at this level is less than ordre public, but nevertheless significant. |
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Jury trials have been very slowly introduced in Spain and have often produced less than desirable results. |
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As a result, while the Irish state has been in existence for less than one hundred years, the statute book stretches back in excess of 800 years. |
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Acquiring the territory would double the size of the United States, at a sum of less than 3 cents per acre. |
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Sinha, for example, states that less than half, or only 1,214 of the 2,685 verses in Manusmriti, may be authentic. |
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A woman's inheritance is unequal and less than a man's, and dependent on many factors. |
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After a series of heart attacks he resigned on 3 April 1908, less than three weeks before he died. |
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These words were to haunt him when Hitler's continued aggression made war unavoidable less than a year later. |
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They reasoned that the Act of Union 1707 had established the number of Scots peers in the House of Lords at no more and no less than sixteen. |
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Pressure mounted on Pembroke, Godolphin and the Queen from the dissatisfied Junto Whigs, and Pembroke resigned after less than a year in office. |
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Same applies for a milder version of a felony that is punishable with imprisonment less than a year. |
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In this situation, they are expected to take less than a minute, with the mean ideal being ten to thirty seconds, to correct a break. |
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The gap between the two rolls is less than the thickness of the starting material, which causes it to deform. |
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Although large amounts of electrical energy are required to produce mechanical pulp, it costs less than the chemical kind. |
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Most walls of the pit are generally mined on an angle less than vertical, to prevent and minimize damage and danger from rock falls. |
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Drift mines, as they require no machinery for pumping water and raising coal, cost less than half the amount required in shaft mining. |
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If a worker earns less than the minimum wage, the employer has to pay the difference. |
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Some suggest the need for laws that place a blanket ban on any work by children less than 18 years old. |
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Evidence for brachytherapy, however, is less than that for external beam radiotherapy. |
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The practice would become mandated for use in Scotland consequent to an act in 1785, but remained used less than in England. |
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For example, a small child's inhalation rate will be less than that of an adult. |
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No less than 6,000 regular troops were called into the city to quell the unrest, while strike spread through the whole sillon industriel. |
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In less than two years it would become the largest mill in the entire town. |
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On June 1, 1813, Shannon took Chesapeake in a duel that lasted less than fifteen minutes in Boston Harbor. |
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In 1871 Barrow's population was recorded at 18,584 and in 1881 at 47,259, less than forty years after the railway was built. |
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As the population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100, details are maintained in the civil parish of Whitwell and Selside. |
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Starting at the shores of Crummock Water in the west, the same is achieved by a single slope of scree in less than a quarter of the distance. |
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Earthquakes are generally restricted to the shallow, brittle parts of the crust, generally at depths of less than twenty kilometers. |
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Plants investing more or less than this optimum will take up less carbon dioxide than an optimal plant, and hence growing less well. |
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Over 3,600 animals were slaughtered and the disease was contained in less than a month. |
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The conurbation has a population of about 650,000, though less than half live within the city boundaries. |
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The nearest licensed airfield is Netherthorpe Aerodrome near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, but it is less than 600m of grass. |
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The accuracy was such that the driftways met with less than three inches of error. |
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Solutions with a pH less than 7 are acidic and solutions with a pH greater than 7 are basic. |
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Contrary to popular belief, the pH value can be less than 0 or greater than 14 for very strong acids and bases respectively. |
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At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn. |
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Dating of 28 tors on Dartmoor showed that most are surprisingly young, less than 100,000 years old, with none over 200,000 years old. |
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Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility. |
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However, this amounts to less than one percent by mass in an average shale. |
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You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. |
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An insomniac should be differentiated from a short-sleeper, who needs less than 6 hours of sleep per night and has no symptoms or dysfunction. |
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He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart. |
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The number of rods in the traditional suanpan is usually odd, and never less than nine. |
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The injection was given subcutaneously, which should have hurt less than intramuscularly but still hurt a great deal. |
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President Kennedy had less than 100 ambassadorial positions to fill. |
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In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who 'ad been made the seckitary. |
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They are often referred to as skin tags or acrochordons and are found in multiple cutaneous locations measuring usually less than 10 mm. |
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We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero. |
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A total of 30 planes were destroyed and there were 44 ahull lossesa, or aircraft write-offs, one less than the previous year. |
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The purchase comes less than two months after FedEx agreed to buy its Indian service provider Prakash Air Freight. |
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Kate is less than 12 weeks pregnant, a source confirmed to the royalist. |
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The alpha particle range from radium Ra 223 dichloride is less than 100 micrometers which may limit the damage to the surrounding normal tissue. |
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I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth. |
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The Antiguan Government has created the bold target of building no less than 500 new homes in 500 days. |
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Not only is averaging less than 9mph on a Midland A-road terrifically annoying, it is also inefficient. |
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In other words, near-term traders have been more skeptically skewed toward AXP less than a quarter of the time during the past 12 months. |
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The Backlit Light Box with LED Strips weighs less than DSA's standard LED products in large format sizes. |
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Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole. |
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Hannah Creek is less than 7 m wide and is mostly wadeable except for a few sections where beavers have constructed dams. |
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Yet at all wage scales and management levels, women earn less than their male peers. |
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This was less than two months after bae had been taken captive. |
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The spiny water flea, a predatory, invasive crustacean less than a half-inch long, thrives in deep, cold and clean water. |
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Using a 56k modem, a WebHead takes an average of less than 20 seconds to download. |
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What is more, no less than the written word, the coin acted upon the culture and mental categories of people who made use of it. |
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I saw it over the weekend at the Sheffield Play House, during what was described, less than felicitously perhaps, as a minifestival. |
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The British expected the Loyalists to do much of the fighting, but they did much less than expected. |
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At the onset of the war, the British Army was less than 48,000 strong worldwide, and suffered from a lack of effective recruiting. |
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Gladstone, who had involved himself again in politics, opposed the measure, but less than half his party voted with him. |
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In less than a decade, its navy became second only to Britain's Royal Navy. |
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A particle is in suspension if its weight is less than the random turbidity forces acting upon it. |
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However, due to its reduced bomb load, the lighter Do 17 was used less than the He 111 and Ju 88 for this purpose. |
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In the first six months of 1942, 21 were lost, less than one for every 40 merchant ships sunk. |
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Over the next decade, a considerable amount of American aid would go to Spain, but less than its neighbors had received under the Marshall Plan. |
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Hospital leaders and experts in health say increased waiting times result inevitably from NHS budgets increasing less than patient demand. |
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We have the smallest nuclear capability of any recognised nuclear weapon state accounting for less than one per cent of the global inventory. |
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Some estimates reported voter turn out as much less than the expected 70 percent. |
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Iraq's UAV fleet consisted of less than a handful of outdated Czech training drones. |
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Falling prices also resulted in homes worth less than the mortgage loan, providing a financial incentive to enter foreclosure. |
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It is the route used by the annual Snowdon Race, with a record time of less than 40 minutes recorded from the start to the summit. |
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Most people undertaking the challenge walk it, and many achieve it in much less than 24 hours. |
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Therefore, the number of ward management areas is less than the number of wards. |
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In 2012, Airbus clarified that in 2015, production costs to build the aircraft would be less than the sales price. |
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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. |
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Diesel locomotives were more efficient and the demand for manual labour for service and repairs was less than steam. |
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Light output of a 230 V version is usually slightly less than that of a 120 V version. |
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In February 2010, Crossrail was accused of bullying residents whose property lay on the route into selling up for less than the market value. |
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Typically less than half of the produced water used to fracture the formation is recovered. |
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The Deputy Clerk Register had to be an Advocate of not less than ten years standing. |
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In many cases, the schools for black students were older, had fewer resources of all kinds, and paid their teachers less than in white schools. |
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He spent less than a year there, leaving in 1927 without gaining a commission, after contracting gonorrhea. |
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In 1826, there was outrage in Scotland at the attempt of Parliament to prevent the production of banknotes of less than five pounds. |
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Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all. |
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From 1947 to 1967, the dollar price of oil had risen by less than two percent per year. |
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In February 2013, Starkey pulled a tendon and was replaced for a gig by Scott Devours who performed with less than four hours' notice. |
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Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years. |
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He broke down after less than a quarter of an hour of the first World Cup match against France and never played for Scotland again. |
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Many countries require a remaining passport validity of no less than six months on arrival, as well as having at least two to four blank pages. |
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The country's flora and fauna live in a harsh landscape with forest accounting for less than one percent of the total area of the country. |
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Before the 19th century, most workers lived less than an hour's walk from their work. |
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Like other welfare states, taxpayers pay various subsidies to each other, but with spending being less than in most European countries. |
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Given the size of the territory, the force amounted to less than one soldier per square mile. |
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The Central Valley is the most impoverished, with migrant farm workers making less than minimum wage. |
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The legal system is clear and business bureaucracy less than most countries. |
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Winter nights are correspondingly long with less than six hours of daylight at midwinter. |
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Juveniles of less than 12 months of age tend to have the most extensive amount of white to the plumage. |
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The stoat was a fundamental item in the fur trade of the Soviet Union, with no less than half the global catch coming from within its borders. |
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The size of mature conifers varies from less than one meter, to over 100 meters. |
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However, the EU's desire to accept these countries' membership applications was less than rapid. |
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The UK's withdrawal from the European Union was expected to be a key issue in the campaign, but featured less than expected. |
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In such a case, even some more distant cousins could acquire the land, though they benefited less than closer kin. |
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Dunlop pleaded guilty to murdering Julie Hogg and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation he serve no less than 17 years. |
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Whiskies and cognacs typically contain more of this than vodkas, but significantly less than rums or brandies. |
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This was almost 25 per cent less than BAA had expected Gatwick would fetch when the sale was announced a year previously. |
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They range in length from less than a meter to several hundred meters long. |
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This marker is present in China and India at frequencies of less than one percent. |
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The Sami are estimated to have adopted a Uralic language less than 2,500 years ago. |
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The remaining territory of the federation was less than half of the population and territory of the former federation. |
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He travelled less than previous monarchs, investing heavily in a handful of his favourite palaces and castles. |
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He became less than popular with the church authorities, however, as a result of his support for disestablishment. |
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By 1990 the Rhondda had less than 50 places of worship, and many of the buildings had been demolished. |
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Two turbines are burnt out, and are uneconomic to replace with less than 10 years left. |
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The city's percentage of Hispanic residents is less than half of that of the state. |
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The commercial value of a salmon can be several times less than the value of the same fish caught by a sport fisherman. |
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Mussels grow quickly and are usually ready for harvest in less than two years. |
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Britain went off the gold standard, and suffered relatively less than other major countries in the Great Depression. |
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By 1932, GDP had shrunk to less than half of what it had been in 1929, exacting a terrible toll in unemployment and business failures. |
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Over a quarter of a million West Indians, the overwhelming majority of them from Jamaica, settled in Britain in less than a decade. |
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After Spielberg suggested Ford again, Lucas gave in, and Ford was cast in the role less than three weeks before filming began. |
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There is no cost saving if you run a nuclear station at less than full capacity. |
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The oxygen in the air is sometimes kept a few percent less than atmospheric concentration to reduce fire danger. |
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As tidal forcing increases, river output becomes less than the marine input. |
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This belief persisted as late as 1878, when Elliott Coues listed the titles of no less than 182 papers dealing with the hibernation of swallows. |
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They are social animals, most commonly found in groups of less than ten, but sometimes in much larger associations of over a hundred individuals. |
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This means that effective concentration of water is less than the actual concentration of it in the brine. |
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Receiving much less than he had requested, he resigned and was replaced by Brian Faulkner. |
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