Sentence examples for by not less from inspiring English sources
He won each of his previous four Tours by not less than six minutes.
The document, sent by the central government to all ministries and state bodies, instructs them to reduce the value of outstanding contracts signed to support their operations, as well as construction contracts included in the 2016 state budget, by "not less than 5percentt of remaining obligations".
In that case, the bill only becomes law if it is supported by not less than two-thirds of the total number of votes cast at the referendum.
The English historian Sir Harry Hinsley, who worked at Bletchley Park, similarly assessed it as having "shortened the war by not less than two years and probably by four years".
That Article, which has remained in abeyance since it was introduced in 1991, provides that a bill that seeks to amend, among other things, Article 65 or 66, must be supported at a national referendum by not less than two-thirds of the votes cast, unless the President consents to the amendment.
If the bill is supported at a national referendum by not less than two-thirds of the total number of votes cast, the President is deemed to have assented to the bill on the day immediately following the day when the results of the referendum have been published in the Government Gazette.
In Mortimer's heyday, those charms were conferred by its patrons, and not less by their chum Bill Blass, who swathed his ladies in fox and the witty pinstripes and foulards that were the genteel uniforms of the uptown set.
That means more oversight and more scrutiny by the states, not less.
The first, in the editorial, states: "The key to a better [police] force is more scrutiny by the media, not less".
If entrepreneurs that undergo stricter scrutiny have a higher success rate, then should a firm look to duplicate that by appearing more, not less, sceptical of new ideas?
Mr. O'Shea argued in the memo that The Times had shown several times — in revising its Sunday magazine, in adding fashion coverage — that it could generate more revenue and higher profit by offering more, not less.
