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The phrase "affect less than" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The changes in policy will affect less than 10% of the workforce."
Alternatives: "impact fewer than" or "influence less than".
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An agency spokeswoman said it would affect less than one percent of all hazardous wastes.
AVMs are most often found in the brain or spinal cord and affect less than one percent of the population.
Facebook has told me that attacks typically affect "less than a fraction of one percent" of members.
(Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, has a port-wine stain on his forehead). Port-wine stains affect less than 1% of infants.
The measures will primarily cover fruit and vegetables and should affect less than 1% of all trade from Israel to the EU, which is worth about €30bn.
Working on the basis of the temporary limit set in July, a committee of MPs calculated that the cap would affect less than 1% of immigrants.
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The bilateral United States-China textiles agreement affects less than 3percentt of United States imports from China.
This affects less than 1% of taxpayers, but attracts disproportionate attention.
The ADHA said the error affected less than 1% of records updated to the system.
Psychologically, the presence of the lesion affected less than 20% of individuals.
Plants in Japan were affected less than North American ones, and Southern Hemisphere plants were hardly affected at all.
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