The phrase "and stayed less than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a duration of time or a quantity that is below a certain threshold.
Example: "We visited the museum and stayed less than two hours before heading to lunch."
Alternatives: "and remained under" or "and spent fewer than".
The musicians schmoozed, hugged and stayed less than an hour.
In Ferguson Missouri's governor, Jay Nixon, arrived at the end of the march and stayed less than 10 minutes.
By contrast, Mr. Kerry — who was substituting at the summit meeting and subsequent Southeast Asian stops for President Obama, who had canceled his tour because of the fiscal impasse in Washington — flew to Malaysia and stayed less than 24 hours.
We compared patients who died or stayed in the ICU for more than 72 hours (COMPLICATED) with those who survived and stayed less than 72 hours in the ICU (CONTROL).
With the application of DHE system to the higher enthalpy reservoirs, for example, 220 °C case, the LCOE drops down to $21.84/MWh (7000 m depth) for recompletion case and stays less than $100/MWh in the case of drilling the well at even for 7000 m depth reservoir.
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Some African countries may waive the yellow fever vaccine requirements for travelers coming from noninfected areas and staying less than two weeks.
Myofilaments were tracked for one minute and those who stayed less than 900 ms attached to the actin filament were filtered out (Rogers et al., 2007 ).
Those aged less than 16 years and those who stayed less than 8 hours in the ICU were excluded from calculation of Acute Physiology Score and APACHE II score.
Our descriptive study focused on patients who were hospitalized 30 days or more, representing the 95th percentile of the duration of all stays in our medical ICU; it aimed at describing the characteristics of patients, searching for risk factors for mortality and comparing them with patients who stayed less than 30 days.
