Comparative data show that indigenous girls attend school less often than boys do.

Residents were often given less than a month's notice before their buildings were razed.

As is often the case, the experience of individual countries is more revealing than the averages. China started with less education than Tunisia, Mexico, Kenya, or Iran in 1960, and had made less progress than them by 2010.

So often, we look at dollar terms people making less than a dollar or two or three a day.

If you do cosmetic surgery, patients are often less happy.

In most cases recipients of foreign aid are promised funds for programmes and often receive either far less than what was promised or nothing at all.

This is a stronger knot. It will come untied less often.

ROME Today s policies to combat climate change cost much more than the benefits they produce. Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Political pressure on the parties to enter serious and sustained talks was often uncoordinated, thereby rendering mediation efforts far less effective than they could otherwise have been.

Less Than or Equals Condition

Trains come more often than buses.

Humility often gains more than pride.

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.

In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on.

Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary. But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.

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.

Often the queens mate more than once.

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.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation. Currently, two dates are circulating widely, 1907 and 1931.

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 ,

Condoms are the most effective means of protection against STIs, yet less than half of all people at risk of HIV infection are able to obtain them, often simply because not enough are being produced .

And if we can resist this crazy slogan, we shall discover in Egypt, in Syria, in Libya, and anywhere else we go in the world that if we can often do much less than we pretend, we can do much more than we fear.

You've been late for school more often than before.