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.

In Germany, the private economy was fit enough to recover, but this was less true in southern Europe or even France.

The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

Even oil and mining companies have reported a less hostile environment.

In general, a computer program may be optimized so that it executes more rapidly, or is capable of operating with less memory storage or other resources, or draw less power.

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

Cameron s bet is not yet won, to say the least.

Up until now, there has been far too little malaria control.

If the fetus is less than 36 weeks and neither mother or fetus is in any distress, then they may simply be monitored in hospital until a change in condition or fetal maturity whichever comes first.

Foreign employers are appalled by the poor quality of Thailand s education system, whose graduates have little foreign language proficiency and possess scant analytical skills.

We can use less or more of them.

Its fruit is very small, weighing or less.

Inflation and interest rates in Japan lately have been even lower than in the US.

All other areas of the country receive less than , and in the Sahara Desert or less occurs.

Fewer than half of the young people that McKinsey surveyed claimed to have even basic knowledge of average wages or the prevalence of job opportunities in their chosen field.

It provides little support, healthcare, or aid to the population there.

We thought that the trip was only one or two hours, maybe even less.

A decision maker can vary their sensitivity, characterized by d', to allow more or less correct detections, but at the respective cost of more or less false alarms.

But the stimulus effect of quantitative easing is far less certain than even that of fiscal stimulus.

The Blueprints scenario is less painful, even if the start is more disorderly.

And yet global interest rates are even lower now than they were then.

Note that if any one of the three color values is less than 16 (decimal) or 10 (hex), it must be represented with a leading zero so that the triplet always has exactly six digits.

Host finding disruption Recent studies on host plant finding have shown that flying pests are far less successful if their host plants are surrounded by any other plant or even decoy plants made of green plastic, cardboard, or any other green material.

As a result, they grow food the traditional way, often earning little or nothing from their harvest, because it s not even enough to keep their families alive.

Some seek to make the tax system more progressive or less progressive.

The average age of a person with HIV is 34 plus or minus 22 years 32 plus or minus 18 years for females, and 39 plus or minus 19 years for males.

Africa's enormous energy potential remains vastly under exploited.

Such a prospect would be even less acceptable to developing countries.

And I believe that the decades ahead of us now will be to a greater or lesser extent turbulent the more or less we are able to achieve that aim to bring governance to the global space.

But, because their legitimacy stems from a religious or even divine source, rather than on a fiction of democratic support, as was the case of the Arab presidents, their rule is less questionable.

And you may have more or less neurons.

Their farms are small, perhaps one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

I do not mean that we are becoming less human in the sense of inhumane.

I also joined Global Voices four years ago or a little bit less.

Less commonly pain may occur primarily in the back or top of the head.

The novel is based on Linna's own experiences, but is more or less fictional.

These are less expensive and more easily laundered than natural down or feathers.

All of the steps taken so far have resulted in more European integration, not less.

Even the perception of fraud can be damaging as it makes people less inclined to accept election results.

Higher equity capital requirements for banks are good for the broader economy they make financial crises (and the zombie syndrome) less likely, less severe, or both.

These beliefs have more or less authority based on the nature of the practices or beliefs and on the group in question.

Where the impact will be less than minor or transitory, an initial environmental evaluation is to be prepared. If the impact is likely to be more than minor or transitory, a comprehensive environmental evaluation must be carried out.

India spends less on health care and education per capita than China, Brazil, South Africa, or Mexico.

They might be just as surprised to learn that health policy is not yet subject to the same approach.

The ratio of women is still lower in some sectors and lines of business (View index 3.6)