And so that sets up for making access to get goods and services more convenient and less costly in many cases than owning them.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

Policies are needed to support technology transfer that facilitates remittances or investments by making such transfers less costly.

For reuse on food crops, waste water may require advanced tertiary treatment, which can be substantially more costly than the secondary treatment needed for safe discharge into watercourses or other less sensitive uses.

The New Climate Economy argues that this would be a very bad idea. The report s thorough assessment of recent research, experience, and innovation led to the unambiguous conclusion that acting now would be far less costly than waiting.

Some of this might make finance more costly, but it will also make banking operations less risky. On balance, this is a good thing.

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

He stressed the importance of adaptation noting that climate change cannot be totally avoided and it may be more rapid and pronounced than currently suggested anticipatory adaptation is more effective and less costly than emergency measures and immediate benefits can be gained from better adaptation to climate variability and extreme events.

Less Than or Equals Condition

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.

It weighs less than a gram.

It looks like less than half.

In Mauritania, less than three percent.

It's less naughty than it sounds.

We have less snow than usual.

She is less intelligent than you.

We can use less oil faster than they can conveniently sell less oil.

At one million square meters, T3 in Beijing is the largest terminal in the world, but was much less costly to build than T5 in London. Using the most recent exchange rates, T3 cost only 3.86 billion compared with 8.6 billion for London s T5.

Similarly, the growing crises in southern Africa often referred to as the triple threat demonstrate yet again the urgent need for early preventative measures, with the clear lesson that early intervention is much less costly than responding later, once needs and suffering have escalated.

It costs way less than obesity now.

Less than one day of Exxon's revenues.

He isn't less clever than his brother.

She has no less than ten children.

And my laptop runs slower, less reliably and less pleasantly than it ever has before.

The comparison function must return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second.

Only less than one percent are adequately treated.

Today it's less than 50 cents a day.

The slope of that is less than linear.

Tom has less money than his brother does.

Tom has less money than his brother does.

The movie was less funny than the book.

Jane is no less beautiful than her mother.

He is less clever than his elder brother.

Imported cars account for less than eight percent.

Woe to those who give less than due ,

Woe to those who give less than due ,

Less wealthy member countries benefited from tools like the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, which provided considerable resources to enable them to boost their per capita income. But protracted economic crisis has changed their citizens' perspective, with a rising proportion viewing EU membership as more costly than beneficial.

Their populations are more diverse than typical suburbia, but they're less diverse than cities.

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.

They fly 65,000 kilometers in less than a year.

And this is less futuristic than it may sound.

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

Less than three percent of a very sophisticated audience.

It began a little less than two years ago.