The basic idea underlying the QALY is simple it assumes that a year of life lived in perfect health is worth 1 QALY (1 Year of Life 1 Utility value 1 QALY) and that a year of life lived in a state of less than this perfect health is worth less than 1.

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

Given the current expected inflation rate of 2 , the real rate on ten year bonds is still less than 1 .

Most parts of the Central African Republic receive more than 122 millimetres of rain per year only the sub Sahelian region of Birao receives less than 1 metre of rainfall per year.

The economy therefore limped along year after year, with real GDP in the final quarter of each year less than 2 higher than it had been a year earlier. Employment grew more slowly than the population, and annual real wage increases averaged only about 1 .

Incomes at that time less than 1,000 per year.

From the year 1 to 5383, there are 526 approaches less than 40 million km then there are none for about 60,158 years.

Real GDP grew at an average annual rate of less than 3 per year for 1997 and 1998 and only 1 in 1999.

But China s direct investments in the US have increased rapidly, from less than 1 billion annually in 2003 2008 to more than 5 billion per year in 2010 2011.

For less than 1 billion a year, this would alleviate both direct and long term economic damage, possibly securing some 35 billion in benefits.

In the midst of an increasingly prosperous global economy, 10.7 million children every year do not live to see their fifth birthday, and more than 1 billion people survive in abject poverty on less than 1 per day.

In the midst of an increasingly prosperous global economy, 10.7 million children every year do not live to see their fifth birthday, and more than 1 billion people survive in abject poverty on less than a 1 a day.

A ten year Treasury has a nominal interest rate of less than 2 .

Less than 1 of the earth s land area is densely urbanized, and even in the most populated major countries, the share is less than 10 .

Government revenues are expected to average less than 400 million per year until 2008 less than half the projected expenditures for public sector salaries and operations.

Only a small percentage (less than 1 ) of the dose is recovered thereafter.

However the CIA factbook claims that Muslims are less than 1 in Bhutan.

In particular, the real number 1 is the set of all rational numbers that are less than 1.

But, less than a year later, the referendum is de facto taking place anyway.

On average, the region receives less than 15 inches (381mm) of rainfall per year.

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.

More than 66.6 per cent of the 3,150,000 Central Africans live on less than US 1 a day.

By 1 July 2005, less than one per cent of UNOPS business acquisition for the current year was under the rubric of common services (see annex 4, figure 2).

Without the inventory investment, the growth rate of final sales averaged less than 1 .

Stage 4S Age 1 year old with localized primary tumor as defined in Stage 1 or 2, with dissemination limited to liver, skin, or bone marrow (less than 10 percent of nucleated bone marrow cells are tumors).

The Andean region has less than 1 of the world s land area, but more than 15 of its plant life.

1996 less than one million new university students in China per year 2006 over five million.

They had each lived with a member of the opposite sex for less than one year.

Although more than 1 3 of the senior officials and managers are women, less than 1 5 of the highest level leadership positions are held by women.

In less than a year, Migrant Workers Task Force has mobilized more volunteers and goodwill than many other more established organizations.

AND N1 or N2 cancer is affecting 1 or more lymph nodes that are between less than 3 and less than 6 cm on one or both sides of thethroat.

By the end of this year, we'll be able to sequence the three million bits of information in your genome in less than a day and for less than 1,000 euros.

Women hold less than 1 of seats in the current Egyptian parliament previously, they held 12 .

In human acute myeloid leukemia the frequency of these cells is less than 1 in 10,000.

When the campaign was first launched, the targeted reduction was not achieved, because during the 2003 festivals the death toll was only 1 per cent less than that in the previous year.

Prognosis Median survival is around 10 years, but the range is wide, from less than one year, to more than 20 years.

Also listed is the Stern Levison parameter Λ again, the planets are orders of magnitude greater than 1, and the dwarf planets are orders of magnitude less than 1.

Estimates show that the cost in terms of adaptation would be less than 1 of global GDP.

In the future a compulsory recount will be held should the winning margin be less than 1 .

Its 470 billion public debt is very large relative to the Greek economy s size, but less than 1 of global debt and less than half is held by private banks (mainly Greek).

Average crude oil composition is 84 carbon, 14 hydrogen, 1 3 sulphur, and less than 1 each of nitrogen, oxygen, metals and salts.

In the 2010 2011 fiscal year, the IMF estimates that economic output will increase by less than 3 one third the rate expected in neighboring India and less than half that of Bangladesh.

Less than a year later, this week on October 24, Raz passed away at the age of 28.

While that is useful information, it does not say anything about the extent to which each forecaster believes that growth might turn out to be less than 1 , or even less than zero.

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