The phrase "attributes less than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving comparisons, particularly in mathematics or data analysis, where you are discussing values or characteristics that are below a certain threshold.
Example: "The dataset includes all entries that have attributes less than the specified limit."
Alternatives: "values below" or "characteristics under".
Though it's unclear what Clinton's staff thought of the Blumenthal memo, it attributes less than flattering motives to the French President's decision to intervene in Libya.
The antecedent expresses for each attribute (alpha _{i,j,dots }) the observed values (phi _{p,q,dots }) for a given system call, with the maximum number of attributes less than or equal to ς.
When soldiers use names that attribute less than human characteristics to the soldiers (and civilians) they encounter -- forgetting that they are human beings with families just like our own -- one thing is certain: by attributing less than human characteristics to the "enemy," we ourselves become less than human.
Republicans argue that benefits discourage people from seeking work, although economists at the Federal Reserve attribute less than one percentage point of the unemployment rate to this effect.Meanwhile, the National Employment Law Project estimates that 2m workers may lose their benefits by the end of the year.
When the victim was depicted wearing underwear the rapist was attributed less blame than in the other condition where only her face was depicted.
The gruesome streak running through these movies should perhaps be attributed less to the individuals than to the country in which they grew up.
These interventions by the supernatural world can be quite common: if work goes badly, the failure is attributed less to the workers' incompetence than to the displeasure of the spirits concerned.
The woman in a bikini was attributed less suffering but more blame than the woman wearing jeans.
Thus, A is attributed less responsibility for the loss than B (which fits with the empirical data).
It is a change, however, that Colonel King attributed less to concerns about civilian casualties than to the need to hunt smaller, more active, enemy groups.
For the 7 patients having complete data, 5 had two or more HUI2 and HUI3 attributes at less than full function.
