I went to bed later than usual.

When it took longer than usual, his family panicked.

More than the usual blame game is at work here.

A straightforward calculation shows that mitigation is better than business as usual that is, the present value of the benefits exceeds the present value of the costs for any social rate of time preference less than 8.5 .

But in the end, that advantage, and his usual verbal threats, mattered less than the desire of voters in some cities and regions to punish his regime because of its mismanagement.

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In 1859, he founded the Chemical News , a science magazine which he edited for many years and conducted on much less formal lines than was usual for the journals of scientific societies.

This will involve far more than just the usual regional actors and conflicts.

Increased levels of INR means blood is taking more time than usual to clot.

Less Than or Equals Condition

This dollar invasion is making macroeconomic management in emerging countries even more challenging than usual.

Other leadership skills are more important than the usual distinction between transformational and transactional leaders.

It can also cover substances which are present in much higher concentrations than are usual.

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.

Indeed, the International Energy Agency noted in September that the usual relationship between oil prices and inventory levels has broken down, with prices much higher than the usual relationship would suggest.

This route was through a huge marsh, which happened to be more flooded than usual for spring.

It is more usual to see such techniques proposed for air capture, than for flue gas treatment.

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.

Bin Laden's December 2004 message was much more vehement than usual in this speech, lasting over an hour.

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.

They are usually small, less than , and herbivorous.

The entire attack lasted less than a minute.

Woe to those who give less than due ,

China, as usual, is the most extreme example, now accounting for more than one half of global cement consumption.

Neither can be true, not with unemployment so high and the average spell of unemployment much longer than usual.

Contrary to the usual rule for sexual dimorphism among birds of prey, the female is smaller than the male.

Over the past year, the list of tragedies arising from nature or human conduct has grown longer than usual.

Indeed, France s manufacturing industry has shrunk to barely 9 of GDP, less than Britain s manufacturing share (10 ) and less than half of Germany s (20 ).

The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.