Sentence examples for poor less than from inspiring English sources

For example, at P.S. 33 in the central Bronx, whose students are overwhelmingly poor, less than half passed standardized reading tests last year.

Jonathan Chait, reviewing a new Ayn Rand biography, points to the way her idea that the rich owe the poor less than nothing has leached into the body politic.

The final range of motion was used to the determine functional outcome according to the Judet classification: Excellent More than 100°; Good 80° 99°; Acceptable 50° 79°; Poor Less than 50°.

Interpretation of ICC was judged according to four grades, poor (less than 0.5), moderate (0.5 to 0.75), good (0.75 to 0.90), and excellent (more than 0.90) (Koo and Li 2016).

Once the questionnaire had been completed the interface was awarded an overall usability score of either very poor (less than 29), poor (between 29 and 49), moderate (between 49 and 69), good (between 69 and 89) and Excellent (more than 89).

Two-thirds stay poor less than three years.

From the 1980s to the present, the richest quintile of 13 to 17-year-olds in Somalia has had on average less than six years of education; the poorest less than one.

The cells were exposed to cisplatin or oxaliplatin, or to no drug for the hypoxic survival experiments, and placed in the anaerobic chamber (Forma Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) which was gassed using oxygen-poor (less than 1 part per 10 billion) 95% N2 and 5% CO2.

The percentage contribution each cluster makes to the rDNA complement is shown in Additional file 4. In each species, there was a single cluster of 18S sequences that comprised more than 70% of the reads, while the remaining clusters were read-poor (less than 1% of the total reads).

Annual housing assistance for the poor is less than a quarter of that.

Over 3m still have no job; almost another 3m "working poor" earn less than FFr5,000.