Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

And so that sets up for making access to get goods and services more convenient and less costly in many cases than owning them.

Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

At one million square meters, T3 in Beijing is the largest terminal in the world, but was much less costly to build than T5 in London.

What could be worse or more costly than that?

The German public does not recognize that agreeing to Eurobonds would be much less risky and costly than continuing to do only the minimum to preserve the euro.

The more complex and costly the mechanisms used, the less fit the resistant population will be.

The authors speculate that easier loan securitization may have made risky CRA compliant loans seem less costly.

Some influential supporters argue plug in hybrids, battery powered vehicles, and biodiesel cars are closer to market, and that they are better, less costly technologies than hydrogen and fuel cell cars.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.

Policies are needed to support technology transfer that facilitates remittances or investments by making such transfers less costly.

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For reuse on food crops, waste water may require advanced tertiary treatment, which can be substantially more costly than the secondary treatment needed for safe discharge into watercourses or other less sensitive uses.

Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable divorce that make separation less costly to both sides.

The problem is that these are currently much more costly options than their carbon heavy alternatives.

Pakistan s involvement in the war on terror proved to be far more economically costly than expected.

The New Climate Economy argues that this would be a very bad idea. The report s thorough assessment of recent research, experience, and innovation led to the unambiguous conclusion that acting now would be far less costly than waiting.

Less Than or Equals Condition

Eastern Europe s transformation after 1989 took a lot longer and was much more costly than originally envisaged.

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

Outside of this room, more than a third of us smile more than 20 times per day, whereas less than 14 percent of us smile less than five.

So when dolphins are separating by less than 20 meters, less than half the time they need to use whistles.

He earned less from cotton last year than the year before, and much less than he earned five years ago.

But if there are no new investment opportunities on the horizon, squabbling is less costly, because the existing plant and machinery are already sunk costs.

That is in less than 60 years.

It costs way less than obesity now.

The opening was less than it seemed.

(What could be less conservative than that?)

Some Indian critics are less than enthused.

There was less traffic than I anticipated.

In sub Saharan Africa, less than 40 of women deliver with skilled care in South Asia, the figure is less than 30 .

Serbia is offering Kosovo the formula less than independence, more than autonomy.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

NEW YORK More than half of Asia s population 1.8 billion people live on less than 2 a day more than 600 million of them try to survive on less than 1 a day.

Similarly, the growing crises in southern Africa often referred to as the triple threat demonstrate yet again the urgent need for early preventative measures, with the clear lesson that early intervention is much less costly than responding later, once needs and suffering have escalated.

He has no less than three hundred books.

The trial itself lasted less than an hour.

Less than a decade later, much has changed.

Taxes cover less than half of government spending.

Today, less than a quarter are located there.

Consumers pay significantly less than at traditional outlets.

They are usually small, less than , and herbivorous.

The entire attack lasted less than a minute.

Woe to those who give less than due ,