Sentence examples for less by half from inspiring English sources

The chiseled, witty, objective poem "Crane" begins, "Paper creased is / with a touch / made less by half, / reduced as much," then adds three more rhymed quatrains in two-beat lines.

The radius of the inner neighbourhood in (6.30) is less by half.

Expect Serbia to keep it relatively close in the first half, trailing by 10 points or less by half-time before the USA goes completely crazy scoring-wise in the second.

Pyruvate carboxylase (PC), an anaplerotic reaction producing oxalacetate from pyruvate, is less by nearly half in adapted flies, while pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and acetate production from acetyl-CoA synthase (ACS) are greater in the adapted population.

Too bad he didn't choose a location less plagued by half-dressed, imperiled strippers.

The new regulations will require television manufacturers to cut the amount of power that TVs use by one-third by 2011, and by just less than half by 2013.

An appeals court reduces a jury award, by less than half, to a woman hit by a subway train.

Led by Uribe, the "no" campaign prevailed by less than half a percentage point with 50.2% of the vote.

Indeed, although LE at birth for the EU increased by ∼1 year for men and women between 2005 and 2009, HLY increased by less than half a year for men and decreased by almost half a year for women.

Over the last year, a study shows, gamers in general have increased by more than ten percent, but online gaming has increased by less than half that.

Both are down by less than half.