Sentence examples for less than nearly from inspiring English sources

By now, of course, that one letter mattered less than nearly everything else I found while I was looking for it.

The contracts, officials said, cost far less than nearly all the other measures the military has used in Iraq to ensure security, and sheiks provide the names of the workers so the military can conduct a security check.

Well according to the government it is about £200m a year, which is a lot less than nearly £2bn.

That's a lot less than nearly $1 billion when the deal first was signed based on the $30 share price at the time, or the $1.14 billion expected from Facebook's $38 IPO price.

The increase will bring in about $839 million in the current fiscal year, about $300 million less than the nearly $1.2 billion that a 25percentt raise would have yielded.

Researchers have found that, for their size, orangutans expend less energy than nearly every placental mammal measured.

In Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy, The Nation editor Christopher Hayes states that the U.S. is now less mobile than nearly every other industrialized democracy on the globe.

Restaurants, office buildings and stores are still paying, on average, far less than the nearly $15 a cubic yard most had been paying before the commission was set up in 1996.

One State Department program that is likely to be scrutinized is an ambitious program to train the Iraqi police, which is costing about $500 million this year — far less than the nearly $1 billion that the embassy originally intended to spend.

One bit is a significant amount but much less than the nearly 2 bits of memory seen in the most retentive short-term response.

This amount was 7.74 inches less than a nearly 30-year average.