Sentences with phrase «by less than»

Director: Brian Yuzna Cast: Michael Pare, Janna Fassaert, Monica Sayangbati, Francis Magee Plot: A fishing port run by less than Continue reading →

Good ideas ruined by a less than average execution.

Not a movie so much as extended takes edited together (by no less than 3 credited editors) of improvised scenes from previous characters in another Judd Apatow movie.

Alec Baldwin portrays the boy's loud mouth father with strong support from Cynthia Nixon, Timothy Hutton and Kiran Culkin in a film executive produced by no less than Martin Scorsese.

This sequel, following Kenneth Branagh's reasonably funny 2011 film, was written by no less than five writers, who between them have only mustered another dull, achingly generic story about saving the world.

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

For all the generic and simplistic stuff served up in Rampage's script (by no less than four writers, including genre - TV veteran Carlton Cuse), the movie delivers where it counts.

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn.

The writing (by no less than seven scribes) has not improved; the so - called «jokes» are all asides and references, coming from outside the material rather than arising organically from within.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

The fault falls with the screenplay, penned by no less than three writers — Sean Anders (co - writer / director of «Sex Drive,» a long way from home), John Morris (who co-wrote «Sex Drive,» «Hot Tub Time Machine» and «She's Out of My League» with Anders), and Jared Stern (who contributed «additional script materials» to «Bolt» and «The Princess and the Frog «-RRB-.

Darwin Dating claims that beautiful people can now meet up with others with no worry of being approached by the less than attractive.

Recently the team analyzed exactly how people use the site, pinpointing which features members use and removing the ones being used by less than 1 % (i.e., E-cards and chat rooms), with the goal being to have a layout, sign - up process, app, and overall site that's fresh, instinctive, and functional, not cluttered and complicated.

The coat is by no less than Versace Jeans Couture and it was a steal.

During the past thirty years, the energy available from processed flour and cereal products and the added fats and oils in them has increased by nearly two hundred calories, while the energy available from less processed foods — meat, eggs, nuts, fruits, and vegetables — has increased by less than twenty calories (Figure 3).5

Since then, my anxiety and panic are decreased by less than half.

That seemingly obvious line of research was not the path taken after the war by less than stellar researchers.

However, clinically speaking, these changes tend to reduce the basal metabolic rate by LESS THAN 10 %.

He is among the first to have earned the degree of Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), a designation held by less than 1 percent of acupuncture practitioners worldwide.

Here's one more reason to skip the chips in aisle five: A 25 - year study released in October found that upping your salt intake even the tiniest bit (i.e. by less than a half teaspoon each day) could increase your risk of premature death by 12 %.

With these microscopes, objects separated by less than 200 nanometers can not be distinguished from one another, which is insufficient to pinpoint the location of individual proteins.

A base is considered not covered when it is covered by less than three reads.

Bat droppings were similar to mouse pellets, about a quarter - inch long by less than an eighth - inch wide.

Unless otherwise mentioned, a base was considered not covered if it was supported by less than three reads.

The spatial smoothness of T2 * images was greater at 3 T by less than 1 mm, suggesting that the greater extent of activation at 3 T beyond these spatial scales was not due primarily to increased intrinsic spatial correlations at 3 T. Rather, the increase in percentage of voxels activated reflects increased sensitivity for detection of brain activation at higher field strength.

In northern latitudes the reverse is happening — land is rising after being liberated from the mass of the ice sheets, again normally by less than 1mm / yr, but in places over 5mm / yr (Peltier et al. 2015).

This noise performance is achieved without sacrificing signal fidelity; test sinusoids injected into the data are attenuated by less than 10 % for signals with periods up 15 days.

These changes can alter the luminescence of the star by less than one percent over the course of several days, making observations challenging.

This distinction is held by less than one half of one percent of all publishing scientific authors.

«most subjects can discriminate mixture pairs that overlap by less than 51.17 %»... that is where the 51 comes from.

Leapfrog Group names UC San Diego Health a «Top Hospital» — an honor earned by less than 7 percent of U.S. hospitals for demonstrated excellence in hospital safety and quality.

Giant stars Aa and Ab are separated by less than the Earth - Sun orbital distance (around 0.73 AU).

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

The radar echoes revealed a surface covering thousands of square metres whose height varies by less than 3 millimetres — 10 times as flat as previous measurements were able to reveal.

The largest lake on Saturn's moon Titan is as smooth as a mirror, varying in height by less than 3 millimetres, a new study shows.

From one point to another, its temperature varies by less than one part in 100,000.

However, the researchers, headed by Oliver Schein at Johns Hopkins, concluded that for the whole of September, the worst month, exposure increased by only 9 per cent and, for the year as a whole, it increased by less than 1 per cent.

Infrared is absorbed by less than a millimetre of tissue but microwaves penetrate about five centimetres, indicating the temperature of most of the body's interior.

When this material is used as a joint, the bone grows into the mesh, which is so resilient that in use it permanently deforms by less than 0.1 per cent of its volume.

There the waves shifted the positions of vacuum - insulated, laser - bathed mirrors by less than the radius of a single subatomic particle.

Botulinum toxin type A injections increased by less than 1 percent from 2015, while hyaluronic acid costs increased 5 percent and chemical peels increased 5.7 percent compared to 2015.

This result is particularly striking because global warming has increased mean temperatures by less than 1 degree Celsius so far.

(The new value differs from the old by less than a tenth of a percent.)

Motor spirit would be dearer by about 0.3 cents per litre, while electricity prices would go up by less than a cent per kilo - watt - hour.

«We are particularly interested in genetic variants that are not common in the population (those carried by less than 1 and 20 women) because uncommon variants are not well studied and evidence suggests they may significantly contribute to cancer risk.»

This rate varied by less than 10 % between mammalian species, they report 15 January in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

They begin to grow when temperatures reach about 70 degrees in the spring, but they only set fruit after experiencing night temperatures of 35 - 50 degrees followed by less than 80 degree daytime temperatures.

Modelling by Jacobson's team suggests that extracting 11.5 TW of this wind power would reduce the kinetic energy of wind at 100 metres by less than 1 per cent.

The Department of Energy, the nation's largest funder of the physical sciences, would see its research budget grow by less than 2 %, to $ 3.3 billion.

He and his team used InSAR satellites to study surface changes following wastewater injection at two sets of east Texas wells separated by less than 15 kilometers.