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The phrase "requires less than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the amount or degree of something needed or necessary, typically in a comparative context.
Example: "This new software requires less than the previous version in terms of system resources."
Alternatives: "needs fewer than" or "demands less than".
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They pointed out, and Tygart confirmed, that the test requires less than a teaspoon of blood.
Cloud-brightening on the scale imagined requires less than a litre of seawater a second.
Thus, each megawatt of capacity requires less than a quarter of a ton of steel.
Vertical mixing of the unstable mixed layer produced by solar heating of the surface requires less than one hour.
The surgery is done in a doctor's office with local anesthesia and requires less than 20 minutes.
Tyler said the best thing about taking third grade online is that it requires less than three hours a day.
The assay requires less than 0.2 mL EDTA plasma and allows the quantification of CPO down to 0.5 nM.
The method yields high detection accuracy and the FPGA implementation requires less than one microsecond to identify an attack.
This method requires less than a minute; the indirect ash test requires approximately one to two hours.
The satellites pinpoint the least sophisticated locaters by Doppler effect, which can take as long as two hours but typically requires less than 90 minutes.
Colebrook equation suffers from being implicit in unknown friction factor and thus requires an iterative solution where convergence to 0.01% typically requires less than 7 iterations.
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