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
• 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
• 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
• There are less than five months left in the life of the 119th Congress.
  — William Becker, Washington Post, 18 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
• 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
• Employing part-time workers costs less than having full-timers on the payroll.
  — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 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
• 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
• This achievement came after four opening weekend screenings sold out in less than an hour, a full year ahead of release.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
• That is less than half as many as the set that produced many of his signature smashes and turned him into a chart-topper.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
• That makes the first part of Wednesday night less than ideal for meteor watching in many areas.
  — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
• But the hauls weren’t always the same; in one of them the thieves made off only with a fake diamond worth less than $200.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026
• Cooke lost to Van Orden in 2024 by less than three percentage points.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
• The real toll is above the official 1,707, but probably by less than three to four fold.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 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
• If the patient is dosed less than what’s on the label, drugmakers generally get less money.
  — CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
• Broadcasting accounts for less than 10% of the franchise’s revenue.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 13 July 2026
• The complaint says the entire demonstration lasted less than five minutes and that no one asked the students to sit down or leave during it.
  — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 12 Aug. 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
• By 2024, the percentage of workers with less than nine years on the job had fallen to 42%.
  — Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026