Sentence examples for less preceding from inspiring English sources

The political scientists I talk to basically have the view that nothing much matters in presidential elections except the rate of change in economic conditions — not the level — in the year or less preceding the election.

Political scientists tell us that voting is much more strongly affected by the economy's direction in the year or less preceding an election than by how well the nation is doing in some absolute sense.

Patients with endocarditis differed from those with SAB only by having significantly more often a predisposing heart disease or a pre-existing liver disease (chronic hepatitis C infection in 19 patients and hepatic cirrhosis in 5 patients), but less preceding trauma (Table 1).

Perceived cognitive symptoms demonstrated that female survivors had more symptoms than male survivors (p=0.01), and those receiving more preceding therapy compared to those with less preceding therapy (p=0.001) or cranial irradiation compared to those without cranial irradiation (p=0.002) had more perceived cognitive symptoms.

- Symptom duration of 3 months or less, preceded by at least 2 months of relative freedom from symptoms.

Eligible participants had an episode of LBP of 6 weeks or less, preceded by a minimum period of 3 months during which participants had not sought treatment for LBP.

Click here to watch This, surely, is how Alfonso Cuaron always dreamed audiences would watch his masterpiece: on a tiny screen, snipped down and context-less, preceded by footage of a middle-aged man bopping along in a Kia.

His administration more than doubled the dividends paid to the government, to $4.9 billion last year from $2 billion or less in preceding years.

In Darwin's formulation of the Tree of Life hypothesis, he said that he attempted " to show that there is a constant tendency in the forms that are increasing in number and diverging in character, to supplant and exterminate the less divergent, the less improved, and preceding forms".

More automatic movements such as eye blinking are less often preceded by sensory urges.

For advanced disease studies, time to disease progression (TTP) is frequently used, but in fact this much less commonly precedes clear improvements in OS, although a few notable exceptions exist (use of trastuzumab and in some studies involving taxanes).