Sentences with phrase «much less than»

Prasad's team also determined that their biomarker measurements are reliable with a tiny amount of sweat — just 1 to 3 microliters, much less than the 25 to 50 previously believed necessary.

During the period covered by the book, however, some things changed much less than others.

«That's much less than the size of a proton,» he says proudly.

The cost of providing the video conferencing and data links is about $ 24 000, which is much less than it would cost to send a design team to California and house them there during a series of tests.

That's much less than what was requested a year ago, when biodiversity and climate change research was slated to receive $ 8 million and understanding the universe, $ 500,000.

Meanwhile, the computerized surveys noted an increase from 10.5 percent to 12.5 percent in that same span — a significant rise of about 20 percent, but much less than the more than doubling reported in the other study.

[Jeff Weeks, a mathematician who is working with Spergel to analyze WMAP's data, says, «The large - scale temperature correlations across the sky are much less than one would expect in an infinite universe but exactly what one would expect in a finite one.»]

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

However, our eyes can not see something much less than the width of a hair (about a tenth of a millimeter) without the aid of a magnifying device.

First of all, people care much less than you think they will.

«For the most part I agree with the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause some warming,» Spencer said, adding that the temperature rise will be much less than the panel predicts.

Parnell's team has been able to show that sea level rise on the East Coast has been much less than 1 millimeter (mm) per year for the entire period 0 AD to 1800 AD, and, since then, it's skyrocketed.

For most species, the overall rate of harmful mutations was much less than 0.5 per individual per generation, the researchers report in the 13 October issue of Science — too low to justify sexual reproduction.

Chimps show a slight tendency toward right - sidedness but much less than our 9:1 ratio.

She adds that latrines cost much less than water stations.

The NIH budget includes $ 65 million for the agency's portion of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative — a $ 25 - million increase over 2014, but much less than NIH's wished - for $ 400 million to $ 500 million per year for the program.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

That figure is less than half the cost — and in some cases much less than half — of recently proposed missions.

If they can outflank the Tories on these millions of people, many of whom earn much less than the minimum wage and would laugh at the idea of a day of work sick or taking a real holiday, then they would have a credible platform to attack big business.

But he argued that even if millionaires and billionaires do «about the same or a little worse,» they still pay «so much less than they should» in terms of their share of taxes.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued state, local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

In matters relating to process, notably prompt access to sites, we have faced relatively few difficulties, and certainly much less than those that were faced by UNSCOM [U.N. Special Commission] in the period 1991 to 1998.

«Institutions can clearly offer higher education at a price much less than # 9,000,» said the universities minister.

Without that popular support (albeit much less than 100 percent) the U.S. would not have gone there.

It's not much less than we gained from the whole 2005 to 2010 effort.»

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne says he has seen documents showing the future take from national insurance would be much less than expected.

According to Labour, that works out on average at about # 3,000 per taxpayer, although it is likely that a large number of people would get much less than that and a small number of the richest much more.

@MSalters No, obviously you got me wrong, the US could have different numbers of people in two different countries, but here the problem is mutual, the diplomats of Russia in the US is much less than those of the US in Russia.

BTW — about $ 25,000 from this current disclosure appears to be from one landlord — Larry Gluck and his (MUCH LESS THAN) Stellar Management.

While the snow amounted to much less than anticipated, the city's public transportation had been shut down at 11 p.m. Monday.

«Should be a one - time - only situation, but with the awareness that this can happen again and that the benefits are so much less than they were before,» the former governor said.

«Waterbourne got a whole lot of points because they were so much less than any of the other bidders.»

For Tories it is not much less than a religious faith.

But it's much less than advocates were hoping to see.

However, it doesn't take much thought to realise that with so many people now on either a benefit or a pension, the marginal cost of introducing a weekly payment as of right is much less than the overall figure of the benefit itself.

It is much less than what George Cunningham insisted on in the Scottish devolution proposals that led to the 1979 legislation on that; he insisted on having 40 % for a yes vote, whereas I am calling here for only 40 % of the electorate.

What is the effect on the labour value of a construction job in the UK when a builder from Bulgaria comes to Britain and is accustomed to doing a job for much less than an existing British builder would expect to be paid?

Women still earn much less than men.

Black and Latino families in New York still earn much less than white families.

We know that the economy is doing OK and we know that opinion polls still show that public confidence in Miliband and Balls (as economic managers) is much less than public confidence in Cameron and Osborne.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments - In both cases it seems extremely unlikely that this money will ever be refunded.

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments

I have been commenting much less than usual lately and enjoying while others rip your highly partisan nonsense.

I'll go into those later but first I think a look at the math might help explain why although turnover might seem high compared to tax paid actually in the example scenario given in the guardian article corporation tax is not much less than what a physical company might pay

I know that the population of Greece is much less than in the U.S., however I do not think it matters to people «lending» money to the governments This is where you are mistaken.

In absolute numbers we're going from 4.2 M to 3.1 M. Still a loss of well over a million, but much less than 3.2 M if we had forgotten to scale the population down to 1960 levels.

The amount the US government spends per capita is much less than say France, a significant amount.

(via New York Times) But only 13 % of online users internationally are on Twitter, and Google + etc. are much less than this.