Some outcomes may be more positive, or at least less damaging, than expected.

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.

For instance, the reason members resign is related much less frequently than expected to dissatisfaction with the political culture.

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.

And the world's population expected to top out at something hopefully a bit less than 10 billion, late this century.

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

Gout occurs less than would be expected and lower levels of uric acid have been found in people with MS.

But the international reaction was less expected.

Although the growth in contributions is expected to continue, for 2009, the last year of the plan period, contributions are expected to be less than in 2005, but still 14 per cent higher than in 2004.

Lower than expected growth and higher than expected inflation have affected most economies.

Neither the planned sanctions nor the recently published US Nuclear Posture Review, a far less revolutionary document than expected, will curb Iran s nuclear appetite.

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When the United States went to war, oil cost less than 25 a barrel, and futures markets expected it to remain there for a decade.

a Total budget of 20,799,300 less expected cost savings of 400,000.

Since the CPC has been revised at shorter intervals than the ISIC, it was expected that the revision of the CPC would be much less extensive than the revision of the ISIC.

a Total budget of 17,342,900 less expected cost savings of 1 million.

That is definitely better than expected.

Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.

Less Than or Equals Condition

Third, financial shocks will be worse than expected.

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.

More than this cannot and should not be expected.

More than 22 million tourists are expected throughout 2014.

Similarly, the IMF is not expected to help India whose per capita GDP is less than a tenth of eurozone levels to finance the poverty stricken states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

But it is simply not correct that climate data are systematically worse than expected in many respects, they are spot on, or even better than expected.

Why the government first imprisoned him and then released him less than 24 hours later remains a mystery. What is clear is that the authorities want the Moscow mayoral election to be substantially more competitive than anyone expected it to be.

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 .

But unemployment has risen even faster and further than expected.

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.

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.