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  • the idiomatic use of no more than and no less than
    The guide contains details of no less than 115 hiking routes can be seen in the same way because of the similarity to the no less than construction, namely 115 is the highest in the scale of hiking route coverage If we are allowed to see the unit no less than in that way, "the amount is larger than you expected" meaning follows naturally
  • No less a person than someone (meaning) - English Language Usage . . .
    This was made crystal clear by no less a person than President Franklin Roosevelt, the principal author of the "Four Freedoms" and the Atlantic Charter What's the meaning of the expression "no less a person than" ? What's the difference in meaning between sentence #1 and #2? When do you use the expression "no less a person than" ?
  • No less than when referring to non-quantities
    After the "no less than" the sentence is a readable sentence fragment But it isn't really a quantity, so I am having trouble understanding the meaning of the entire sentence If it instead said: Balanced reporting requires impartially revealing injustices where they occur no less than 5 times in a given week
  • No less than idiom root - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    No here really just means ‘not’, so if X is no less than Y, that means it is not less than Y; in other words, it is as much as (or possibly even more than) Y “No less than 20 people came” means that the number of people who came was not less than 20
  • Differences between expressions including [not no + more less + than~]
    Both "I have no less than 1000" and "I have not less than 1000" mean "I have 1000 or more " Also, Brian is correct that using "no more (less)" is much more common than using "not more (less)" I would caution you against using "not" instead of "no" with less more Even though it might be technically correct, I wouldn't consider it idiomatic
  • Use of no less than and no fewer than [duplicate]
    No less than and no fewer than can be used interchangeably in many cases To native English speakers, "fewer" should refer to a plural number "An hour" is singular, therefore "fewer than an hour" doesn't sound right to a native English speaker You could say "no fewer than 60 minutes" and nobody would be concerned
  • Which is correct: not less than or no less than? [closed]
    Cambridge Dictionaries Online has an entry for no less than: used to show your surprise at a large number: There were no less than a thousand people there buying tickets In the electronic version of the Oxford Hachette Dictionary, under the entry of "less" as an adverb, I read: no less than 85% au moins 85%
  • idioms - What does no less than mean? - English Language Usage . . .
    @Matt Эллен: It's closed as "general reference", rather than "not a real question" Obviously I personally don't find the surface meaning of the expression opaque, but looking at examples in NGrams I'm intrigued that this version (as opposed to no more than) seems to have a far higher proportion of usages in religious contexts


















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