The phrase "and started less than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a time frame or duration that is shorter than a specified amount.
Example: "The project was initiated and started less than two weeks ago."
Alternatives: "and began in under" or "and commenced in less than".
We examined 15 patients (six men and nine women) suffering from chronic WAD (> 6 months), classified as grade 2 according to the Quebec Task Force classification [ 24] and which started less than 72 hours after the motor vehicle accident.
Yoana Baraschi, Timo Weiland and Leifsdottir each started less than 10 minutes late.
The average D' of (A,A) started at around 0.20 and declined to 0.07 over a scale of 800 bases; while for (A,S) and (S,S), the average D' started less than 0.07 and then both fluctuated at around 0.05 (Fig. 3A).
The read through for Last Christmas took place on Wednesday, 3 September, 2014, and the main shoot started less than a week later on Monday, 8 September.
Diabetes mellitus types I and II: patients were classified as having DM type I if diabetes was diagnosed at the age of < 40 years and if insulin treatment was started less than 6 months after diagnosis.
The date of initial sputum culture positivity was reported in 1568 patients (68% of the pulmonary TB cases), and anti-tuberculosis therapy was started less than one week after collection of the initial sputum culture in 70%.
The Orange Wine Fund, listed on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, was started less than four months ago and intends to invest both in wine and in companies in the industry.
Destination clubs, which started less than a decade ago and catered to affluent travelers, have expanded to higher and lower demographics, targeting both the ultra-rich and those more comfortable with membership fees of less than $150,000.
This meant saying no to the Happiness Paradigm Store and Experience, an enterprise I had started less than six months earlier.
Finally, we excluded any saccades that started less than 100 milliseconds after stimulus onset (Fischer & Ramsperger, 1984).
