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It is used to describe a quantity or amount that is less than double the original amount. Example: The company's profits increased by 30%, but they were still less than doubled compared to last year's earnings.
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By comparison, the number of Chinese undergraduates in Britain less than doubled over the same period, to 35,000 (see chart).
The good news is that since 1992, ad-supported cable's revenue soared an inflation-adjusted 240% to $14.5 billion, while its share of media consumption less than doubled.
The protein concentrations were less than doubled; significance testing was not reported.
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For a fee that is usually less than double the cost of a taxi ride, the services will pick customers up from restaurants, bars and entertainment venues and drive them home — in their own cars.
But today, new computer science graduates are so plentiful that their pay in Shenzhen has fallen to just $550 a month, less than double the wage of a blue-collar worker.
(Consider the fact that a search for "Jennifer Aniston pregnant" yields 4.5 million Google results, a little less than double the return for "Zooey Deschanel pregnant," despite the fact that Zooey Deschanel is actually pregnant right now).
Thus, doubling the number of items resulted in less than doubling the variance explained.
The merged reads are often less than doubling the read length.
They observed high photochemical ozone concentrations in the UGRB in the winter, reporting readings of up to 140 ppb, just less than double the U.S. EPA ozone concentration limit of 75 ppb (U.S. EPA 2012a).
In order to visualize the associations and to compare them with established QTL [ 6, 10], all SNPs associated with a particular trait mapping within less than double the mean LD stretch were considered as a single unit defining association groups.
Contrary to what would be expected from the chromosome number duplication in B. rapa compared to A. thaliana, the number of KMT genes in B. rapa (49) is much less than double the number of A. thaliana KMTs (74).
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