Sentence examples for close less than from inspiring English sources

The new rules will close less than two-thirds of the gap; general spending will have to fill the rest.

And several Internet companies listed on Nasdaq have filed for bankruptcy or announced plans to close less than two years after first selling shares to the public.

A US naval officer reported that Russian ships, too, had come "uncomfortably close" – less than a mile from the Nato flotilla.

The opposing trenches have moved so close — less than 40 yards in some places — that soldiers on both sides sometimes hurl rocks at each other.

The West End run of The King's Speech is to close less than eight weeks after its opening night, the producers revealed yesterday, admitting they had not waited long enough after the release of the Oscar-winning film to stage the work.

Insurgent attacks are now at their lowest level since 2004; the number of American soldiers killed dropped to 19 in May, the lowest monthly total since the invasion of Iraq (see chart 2).A turn for the betterGrit, determination, an eleventh-hour change of tactics and the Sunni tribal movement helped America to avoid the defeat in Iraq that seemed perilously close less than two years ago.

It closed less than two months later.

Level Global closed less than a year after Petershill bought a stake.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed less than a point lower.

Sunriver, a neighboring community, is closer, less than 10 miles away.

Last year, it announced that a factory in Amagasaki was closing, less than two years after it opened.