Sentence examples for less than last time from inspiring English sources
There was praise, a little more than last time; there was damnation, a little less than last time.
He added: "We've been very, very careful to set out a small number of red lines – less than last time around.
Obama's finance team had already realized that if Wall Street was going to give less — potentially far less — than last time, other constituencies would have to give more.
The SPD, which has run the state as a minority government, with the ex-communists' tolerance, since 1994, is given just 30%, six points less than last time.
Ah, but he's a Mormon (deeply mistrusted, but less than last time) and organised a state health plan that looks too much like Obama's health reform to Tea Party types.
A one-day strike by air-traffic controllers caused widespread disruption to flights into the country.See article: France's government versus the strikersIn regional and municipal elections in Spain, the conservative People's Party, led by José María Aznar, who runs the national government, did better than pollsters predicted, scoring only one percentage point less than last time round, in 1999.
The most exciting thing that can be said for the remaining tracks is that they're less maudlin than last time around.
Though the full extent of the damage at the epicenter was still unknown, the 6.6-magnitude quake was smaller — in 2008, it registered 7.9 — and the human toll appeared to be far less significant than last time.
"But we are hoping that a concrete barrier we are building to contain the sludge, along with an emergency dam, will do their work and that the effects of the wall collapsing will be less dramatic than last time".
And corporate profits have risen by more than share prices, so earnings multiples are also less frothy than last time.Tellingly, Goldman the number-one merger adviser every year since the last boom continues to see the business as "mission-critical", in Mr Dyal's words, even though it makes much more money these days trading securities.
Activists have little confidence that the electoral commission is independent.Still, the MDC is hopeful that voting would be less bloody than last time, when at least 200 people died, forcing Mr Tsvangirai to abandon a presidential run-off despite beating Mr Mugabe in the first round.
