Sentence examples for figure less than from inspiring English sources

Compared to other newspaper groups bulk sales constituted a tiny proportion of the Guardian and Observer's overall sales figure, less than four and five per cent respectively.

Moody's Economy.com forecast in August 2008 that 2.9m first mortgages in America would default in 2009, itself a disastrous figure (less than a million defaulted in 2006).

He seemed almost visibly to unclench once he was settled into a chair with a Martini, singing along in a raspy Sprechstimme as the pianist played: Is your figure less than Greek?

Bertelsmann, he said, discussed a deal with EMI executives in 1998, only to break off conversations because the price they were demanding was too high -- and that price, he noted, was a figure less than half of what Time Warner is paying to fold EMI's music holdings into a 50-50 joint venture.

The receiver achieves a maximum gain of 105 dB and noise figure less than 6 dB.

Amplification of wavelength division multiplexing systems (two and four channels) was successfully demonstrated with an average gain of 22 dB and a noise figure less than 7 dB.

According to SACH figures, less than 10% of it is considered well preserved.

Without mentioning a specific figure, Mr. Wallau said, "This is seven figures less than the normal price we'd get".

The effort has so far cost "somewhere in six figures — less than seven figures — mostly in faculty time," she said.

Lloyds released the figures less than two weeks before its set-piece annual results because the extra costs were so big it was obliged to inform investors immediately.

Shoppers who now click on the company's Web site can find lithographs for three and four figures, less than many of the televisions Costco regularly sells.