How to Use less than in a Sentence

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• Generic and store-brand supplies can cost less than name brands.
  — Amy Kawata, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
• But most lecturers are not full-time and make less than half that amount.
  — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026
• The stock, while on the mend, has recovered less than half of its loss since then.
  — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
• And less than none is presumably the plot of Refn’s next film.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
• In less than a minute, Blair Imani can teach you a thing or two about the world.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026
• Hurts has thrown over the middle at less than half the frequency of his peers.
  — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 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
• This price is 17 cents less than this time last month and 85 cents more than this time last year.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
• There are less than five months left in the life of the 119th Congress.
  — William Becker, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
• Thus, nearly every part of your face is nourished for less than $4 apiece.
  — Essence Wiley, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026
• That’s less than a quarter of the passengers who used the service last month.
  — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
• But with less than two months until election day, control of the chamber is now up for grabs.
  — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• And that is less than the $1 million he was expected to make in college.
  — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 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
• But the bottom half of all Americans own less than three percent of the wealth.
  — Paddy Hirsch, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026
• She was released in June after serving less than a quarter of the nine years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 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
• Smokejumpers can reach anywhere in mainland Alaska in less than two hours.
  — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• Employing part-time workers costs less than having full-timers on the payroll.
  — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
• Anything less than a deep run would be a massive disappointment.
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
• The changes come less than two months after a 13-year-old boy climbed out of a log flume and fell 50 feet.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 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
• In 1978, his salary, less than a hundred thousand a year, was paid by his father.
  — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
• Flooding doesn't look like a concern, as the total rainfall is expected to be less than an inch.
  — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 8 Sep. 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
• Yet, Towns probably shouldn’t be asked to take a considerable amount less than the max.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026