Sentence examples for less than the margin from inspiring English sources

The actual number of shares held by the partnerships declined less than the margin sales would indicate, evidence that the banks sold at least some stock obtained with Mr. Watson's options.

Out of 435 House seats, a net shift of 6 amounts to a change of only 1.4percentt, or less than the margin of sampling error in any election poll taken this year.

United States Representative Robert D. Franks had the most support, with 18percentt, but his lead over State Senator William L. Gormley was less than the margin of error.

Treatments can be deemed inferior to the reference treatment by an amount less than the margin of noninferiority, or inconclusive if the confidence interval crosses the margin of noninferiority.

A spokesman for British Gas said margins in the second half of 2010 were expected to be an average of 3% to 4% on residential energy sales, "substantially less" than the margin predicted by Ofgem.

Mr. Kerry's edge in the three-way matchup with Mr. Bush and Ralph Nader was less than the margin of error -- four percentage points -- but the results were a reversal from the last Newsweek poll, which showed Mr. Bush leading Mr. Kerry by six percentage points.

As a result, the Democrats lost race after race by less than the margins of those their lapsed volunteers would normally have gotten to the polls.

Those margins are far less than the profit margin for the entire company, estimated at 16% for fiscal 2001.

Due to this reason, the smallest stability margin of robot in this task is just 0.07 m, which is obviously less than the smallest margin in other tasks.

First, non-inferiority was assessed on the basis of the intergroup difference (diquafosol group mean sodium hyaluronate group mean) in change in fluorescein staining score, with an inferiority margin of 0.34 (inferiority was determined if the upper limit of a 95% CI was less than the inferiority margin).

The Real Clear Politics average pegged the Democratic House lead at 9pt in 2008 – only 1.5pt less than the final margin.