The opening was less than it seemed.

There was less traffic than I anticipated.

But today Russia is more isolated, less trusted, and less respected than it was a month ago.

But, the devaluation was much less important than is widely assumed.

No less than we, each was certain that its course was the right one.

less than

This was true of Italy and Britain, no less than of Belgium.

In 2011, the Christian population of Gaza Strip was less than 1,400.

SM Well, actually the cost that we incurred was less than 200 rupees.

Occupation currency, including denominations of less than one dollar, was printed on paper.

An extensive photo compilation of Gates' handshake was viewed more than 76,000 times in less than a day.

The 2000 population number of 154,805 was more than 15,000 less than the 170,000 estimated before the census.

Poverty was widespread, with more than half of the population living on less than one dollar a day.

In 2010, less than a thousand people applied for asylum in Brazil. In 2015, it was more than 28,000.

Finally, abandoning the gold standard was less disruptive than abandoning the euro would be.

Russia thought it was less dependent than Ukraine, and decided to exercise that power.

I didn t feel I was any less able than my classmates from private schools.

At this time, Army Group Vistula's front was less than 50 miles from Berlin.

While foreign trade in Finland was booming, less than 1 of Finnish trade was with the Soviet Union.

Lorenzo was less successful than his illustrious forebears in business, and the Medici commercial empire was slowly eroded.

Civilian service was considered less onerous than armed service because the latter was performed within the military structure.

Either the damage caused by the financial crisis was more serious than people realized, or the economic medicine prescribed was less efficacious than policymakers believed.

Household wealth is now 10 trillion dollars less than it was before the recession began.

Even after three weeks, the total was less than in some one man suicide bombings.

The average income for blacks in the city was less than half that of whites.

Thurman was also less wedded to the gold standard than some Northeastern delegates would tolerate.

Less Than or Equals Condition

The secular Kemalist state was no less authoritarian than Erdoğan s populist Islamist regime if anything, it was more so.

Thus, the entire geopolitical context is far less threatening than it was in the 1930 s.

The general fought less out of conviction than pragmatism, but the end result was the same.

I was in a hospital on life support, with less than a 2 chance of living.

President Johnson was sworn in at 10 00 am, less than 3 hours after Lincoln's death.

This was the second injury he suffered to his cruciate ligament in less than two years.

The risk was a less than optimal allocation of scarce resources, or a waste of resources.

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.

It was such an approach that, in less than 20 years, helped postwar Europe achieve food sovereignty.

Failed states, it was now acknowledged, were no less an impediment to development than were overbearing states.

This occurred when Sirius B was less than half its current age, around 120 million years ago.

At the same time, the overall construction cost was 19.5 million less than the original design.25

It was not a single movement or school of thought, it was less a set of ideas than it was a set of values.

That is in less than 60 years.

It costs way less than obesity now.

(What could be less conservative than that?)