Sentence examples for less above from inspiring English sources

Threatened by climate change, with 80% of the area 1 metre or less above sea level.

Sally was a stickler for correct usage, and would complain in supermarkets when she saw "Ten items or less" above checkouts.

Al-Khalili positions himself with care, more or less above the clash of civilizations but with unconcealed pride in his roots.

He might have declared that the age of "big government" was over, but he believed in government none the less, above all a government which worked.

As if to offset the formalist tradition's susceptibility to arid high-mindedness, Mr. Walsh hangs his paintings just a foot or less above the floor, creating a down-to-earth intimacy.

In recent weeks, for example, shares in Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which anxiously want to return the $10 billion in taxpayer money that each received last fall, have floated more or less above the siege ravaging other bank stocks.

Sitting in the office of his publicist recently, Mr. Sunjata admitted to some self-confidence but hinted that he felt far less above-it-all than his character.

In addition to leading to an understatement of global area requirements, omitting explicit analysis of irrigation and associated constraints is likely to overstate the potential for expansion of croplands in dry (currently irrigated) regions with lower land use emission factors (less above-ground carbon).

Inevitably, more history from below means less from above.

Today, most teachers remain unaccustomed to receiving anything less than above-average evaluation ratings.

Those codes permit no more than one fuel tank with a capacity of 275 gallons or less on above-ground floors, he said.