Iraqi girls suffer no less than boys and often more.

Comparative data show that indigenous girls attend school less often than boys do.

The marketplace for ideas also often works in a way that is less than ideal.

The health advantages of providing networked water supplies are less dramatic than is often assumed.

Even micro credit schemes often seem to lend less to women than to men in the same circumstances.

The concepts of intelligence and of race are less clear cut than we often assume them to be.

70 of Japanese churches have an average attendance of less than 30, though membership is often double this figure.

As a rule, the milk of mammals that nurse frequently (including human babies) is less rich, or more watery, than the milk of mammals whose young nurse less often.

But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

Costs of dry bulk foods (before preparation) are often considerably less than convenience and fresh foods purchased at local markets or supermarkets.

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Substantial net worth is often required of investors by the law, since private equity funds are generally less regulated than ordinary mutual funds.

Experience shows that it may often take less time.

And in places where lights are not used very often, a lower price incandescent bulb can cost less overall than the energy efficient alternative.

Some of the most difficult and demanding prima donnas often cause less friction in these multinational outfits than they do on their national teams.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation.

Portuguese people die 12 less often from cancer than in the Eur A, but mortality is not declining as rapidly as in the Eur A.

In addition, the individuals with classic autism were providing correct answers to the Raven's test in less time than individuals without autism, although erring as often.

In most cases recipients of foreign aid are promised funds for programmes and often receive either far less than what was promised or nothing at all.

Charity responds to attention grabbing events, often neglecting less sensational disasters.

But, seen from within, the EU model often appears less convincing.

Less Than or Equals Condition

ROME Today s policies to combat climate change cost much more than the benefits they produce. Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

(By contrast, non financial corporations rarely borrow more than 70 of their assets, and often much less, despite the absence of any regulation of their leverage ratios.)

Political pressure on the parties to enter serious and sustained talks was often uncoordinated, thereby rendering mediation efforts far less effective than they could otherwise have been.

Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.

Voter reaction is often less about disliking immigrants than it is about a profound sense of frustration that governments have failed to create an immigration system that works.

Humility often gains more than pride.

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.

Frames have been known to cause problems with web accessibility, copyright, navigation, printing and search engine rankings, and are now less often used than they were in the 1990s.

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.

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.

Second, water scarcity is seldom absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.

Net nannies as China s Internet censors are often dubbed blocked sensitive articles less frequently.

The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors).

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.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary. But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.