The phrase "a number less" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express a quantity that is reduced by a certain number, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The total was supposed to be 100, but it came out to be a number less than that."
Alternatives: "a lesser number" or "a reduced amount".
One trader reported some talk of a number less than 100,000.
"If I just looked at the president's budget, one could imagine doing a number less than that," said Piermaria Oddone, director of the lab.
I knew nothing about veggie baskets, but there was instruction: a number (less than six veggies, too "skimpy"; more than twelve, too much), a technique (blanch your beans, then ice them, so the green pops), and a commitment to visual novelty (yellow carrots, purple peppers, rainbow greens).
This is clear from the fact that the HF molecule is polar; the hydrogen atom has a partial positive charge, while the fluorine atom has a partial negative charge :H−F δ+ δ− (In this example the symbol δ stands for a number less than one).
For example, in a 50-node network SNCF caused accumulation of around 250 frames while CA protocol resulted in a number less than half of that.
By Rouché's theorem [19], the root of the characteristic equation (4.1) crosses the imaginary axis from left to right as τ is increased continuously from a number less than (tau_{0}) to a number greater than (tau_{0}).
Let ([a,b]subset mathbb{R}) be a closed interval, and let δ be a positive number less than ((b-a)/2).
About 11% of these miRNAs had a copy number greater than 10,000 and about 67% a copy number less than 1,000.
As an input to clustering we excluded sequences with a copy number less than 5.
But it was such a small number — less than 1percentt — of the patients in the study that it was difficult to draw any strong conclusions from that data.
To study this, measurements have been made of the interaction between two premixed laminar V-shaped flames ("W" configuration) for a Lewis number less than 1.
