Sentence examples for contract by less than from inspiring English sources

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said that has forecast Britain's economy will contract by less than feared this year but warned recovery will be slow and uncertain against a worsening international backdrop.

The west's leading economic thinktank has forecast Britain's economy will contract by less than feared this year but warned recovery will be slow and uncertain against a worsening international backdrop.

Enrico Letta's government is predicting a return to modest growth by the end of the year- a hope which was boosted this month by news that the economy had contracted by less than expected- 0.2%- in the second quarter.

"The Australian economy is contracting, though by less than those of its trading partners," the bank observed Tuesday.

European stocks eased off their earlier highs on Thursday, after new gross domestic product figures showed the U.S. economy contracted by a less-than-expected 0.3% in the third quarter.

Labour will tell landlords that they will only be able to increase rent for tenants by less than inflation for the duration of a contract.

Both are down by less than half.

The latter, by less than a twentieth.

Use of emergency clinics by labour migrants with a contract of less than 6 months can be explained by the fact that they are not legally entitled to use an assigned GP.

The bomb, partly concealed by two T-shirts and stored in a Swiss Army brand backpack, was found on a bench on the King holiday, Jan . 17 by contract sanitation workers less than an hour before the planned start of the march.

The property went into contract in less than a month.