Sentence examples for afflicts less than from inspiring English sources
Today, restenosis in coronary arteries afflicts less than 10percentt of patients thanks to the development of the drug-eluting stent (DES), which slowly releases a drug that inhibits the growth of scar tissue.
A rare disease afflicts less than 200,000 individuals, according to the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) of the United States.
These are diseases that afflict less than one person in a million.
The National Institutes of Health counts 6,000 diseases that afflict less than 1% of the population.
The magazine spent so much time savaging the liberal consensus in its editorials, Mr. Richardson suggests, that it afflicted conservatism less than it should have.
An apt analogy might be to the observation that only a fraction of most diseases are due to genetic causes, and external factors often account for a significant amount of the risk (for example, if one identical twin has type 1 diabetes, the chance of the other twin being afflicted is less than 50%).
The Rwandan people -- and genocide survivors like me -- also believe in these things: the right to live in peace; the right to economic security; the freedom to raise a family without fear and violence; and, above all, freedom from the horrendous bloodshed that afflicted our homeland less than a generation ago.
If fatally afflicted, children often die less than 72 hours after developing symptoms.
Moreover, although the market mechanism was far less afflicted than central planning by such incentive problems, it was by no means immune from them.His big idea was "incentive compatibility".
The mortality was staggering the French chronicler Jean Froissart's estimate that the first wave carried off one-third of the population was perhaps not far wrong; evidence shows that rural areas were no less afflicted than towns.
