Sentence examples for a second less than from inspiring English sources

INSIDE TRACK In the men's 800 meters, DAVID KRUMMENACKER outleaned DERRICK PETERSON and beat him by five-thousandths of a second, less than an inch.

After an upgrade scheduled for June, peak speeds for Internet access will be roughly 10 kilobits a second, less than a fifth of the speed of a typical home PC modem.

Running hard through the finish, Bolt not only ran 19.30, breaking the world record by two-hundredths of a second less than two hours before his 22nd birthday, but he seemed to set new parameters on what humans can achieve.

He had recorded a wind-assisted time of 10.13 seconds at one point in the 100 meters, while in perfect conditions his best time in 2012 was 10.24 seconds, just a few hundredths of a second less than the qualifying time for the semifinals at the London Games last summer.

These affected vehicles failed to chime for a fraction of a second less than the safety standard required even though the illuminated seatbelt icon on the dashboard lit up for longer than was required".

As he says, when about to be forced into a second less-than-desirable marriage, "I want to say that this already happened to me long ago".

Yesterday, Schering-Plough reported that profits for the second quarter amounted to just 12 cents a share -- down 72percentt from a year ago and a third less than analysts were expecting.

The average annual intake of fizzy drinks is dropping, with the average American drinking nearly a fifth less than a decade ago.

And a coffee at Tim Hortons costs about a third less than at Starbucks.

In 2012, Germans drank 107.2 litres a head – about a third less than in 1976.

That valuation is a third less than the face amount of Station's senior debt.