How to Use less than in a Sentence

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• In less than a minute, Blair Imani can teach you a thing or two about the world.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026
• The price still is still 8 cents less than a month ago, but 86 cents more than a year ago.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
• That’s less than a quarter of the passengers who used the service last month.
  — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
• However, the odds of a person being struck are less than one in a million.
  — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
• Chicago is bracing for another heat wave, less than two weeks after the last one.
  — Tara Molina, CBS News, 13 July 2026
• Yes, Williams is out of the singles draw after losing to a woman less than half her age.
  — Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
• No fee is charged if the item amount is less than or equal to $5 or your account is overdrawn by $20 or less.
  — Dan Avery, CNBC, 14 July 2026
• Right now, shoppers are stocking up on gorgeous dresses in spades for less than $50.
  — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
• The number has increased to more than five times the original deployment in less than a year.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 14 July 2026
• Post-event follow-up is less than 1% of total message volume across every church size.
  — Vijesh Mehta, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• And until that is corrected, the on-field results will continue to be less than the sum of the parts.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• In less than two weeks, however, the stock has recovered most of that decline, trading close to 52-week peaks.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Broadcasting accounts for less than 10% of the franchise’s revenue.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 13 July 2026
• This group also spent less than two hours per day watching television, the study’s measure of sedentary behavior.
  — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• Training camp is less than three weeks away, which means Notre Dame football will soon offer some answers about this season.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 July 2026
• July 1 is less than 24-hours away and will bring the most sweeping overhaul in decades of federal student loans.
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 30 June 2026
• This means that on said date in 2026, ‘Vini’ has less than a year to run on his deal at the Bernabeu.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• For these teams, model choice matters less than how well the model is evaluated and adapted to solve a real problem.
  — Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Pretoria and Johannesburg are less than a 90-minute drive away.
  — Katie Silcox, Vogue, 21 July 2026
• Brukbacher's hiring came less than a year after the firing of Jason Krasley.
  — ABC News, 14 July 2026
• All 29 spacecraft deployed from the Atlas V rocket less than an hour after launch.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
• Then, less than 48 hours later, the 59-year-old Grown Ups star made headlines again for his love of the game.
  — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• The telecom giant unloaded the media properties less than four years later.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 13 July 2026
• The price point is 28 cents less than this time last month; but noticeably higher than last year with a 67-cent difference there.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 July 2026
• Traffic numbers and impression counts will matter less than influence, trust and reuse.
  — Vincentas Grinius, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• If storms occur within the radius less than 30 minutes before the game is due to begin, kick-off will also be delayed.
  — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Swift most recently led with The Life of a Showgirl less than a year ago, in fall 2025.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• How these extreme objects formed in the earliest years of the universe—when the cosmos was less than a billion years old—has long been something of a mystery.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 July 2026
• Additionally, these saws weigh less than other types of circular saws and can operate at higher speeds for smoother cuts.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026
• Some of the best songs are less than two minutes, coming and going with eerie focus, leaving lingering afterimages.
  — Brian Howe, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026