Sentence examples for less than really from inspiring English sources

So one can't in fact argue that the question of the less than "really happy" marriage is unique to our own lonely and alienated times.

And like so many rich girls of fiction, 12-year-old Grace (Mae Whitman) exists primarily to prove how emotionally rich, full and loving the lives of the less-than-wealthy really are.

It's long been known that people claim to eat far less than they really do.

He's lovely, but I think he just needed someone a bit... less than me, really.

"People should not buy more or less than they really need," she said.

That is almost $2 billion more than the Palestinian Authority had sought, though probably less than it really needs.

They might hide a relative, change their name or suggest they earn less than they really do.

People don't just try to slip a new laptop by customs, they pay for an apartment in cash so they can declare it costs less than it really does.

The company advertised that the Nook weighed 7.4 percent less than it really did — a rather important fib in a product that you have to hold in your hand for hours at a time.

All this raises the question: If most Americans' tax returns were subject to the same scrutiny as those inside the Beltway, would we find that many of us pay less than we really owe?

As Nadine Gordimer so eloquently put it, "the facts are always less than what really happened," and that is where journalism and good storytelling has the advantage, if not the duty.