Sentence examples for contest less than from inspiring English sources
Much work remained, with Team USA's first Olympic contest less than a week away, but not until after a potential gold-medal-game preview that counts for nothing but could hold major Olympic implications anyway.
But over the course of the first hour of the debate, his odds steadily plunged to 12 percent, meaning that the traders were now betting that he had a one in eight chance of winning Tuesday's contest — less than half the likelihood they foresaw before the debate began.
The Des Moines Register endorsed Romney in the contest less than two weeks ago.
So much for the power of "l-o-v-e". On November 3, 2015 an NBC News article titled Hillary Clinton Increases Her Lead Over Bernie Sanders stated, "Hillary Clinton has increased her dominant lead within the Democratic Party's presidential contest". Less than three months later, with Bernie Sanders surpassing Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, history began to repeat itself.
Braddock is entered late for the contest, less as an underdog than as a sacrificial offering, and when he turns it around the crowd — Braddocks to a man — begins to sniff a hero.
There he will begin doing what incumbent presidents of both parties do when facing a tough re-election race: trying to make the contest less a referendum on their record than a choice between two competing options.
Old-fashioned watermelons, the seeded kind, are more than an opportunity for a seed-spitting contest, and less than a nuisance.
In terms of per-game scoring, more than half of the Big 12 averages better than 38 points per contest, while less than half of the Pac-12 can say the same.
This season the Hokies rank No. 4 in the conference and No. 25 overall (40.3 points per contest, 0.1 less than North Carolina), piling up 63.9 more yards and nine more points per game than it did a year ago.
He's one of three players in the league — LaMarcus Aldridge and Zach Randolph being the other two — averaging better than 14 points and seven rebounds per contest in less than 30 minutes of action.
Multiple reports this week have cited increasing frustration inside the Clinton campaign, as Sanders maintains strong polling support in New Hampshire and Iowa, which will be the first state to vote in the Democratic presidential contest in less than two weeks.
