Sentence examples for this year less from inspiring English sources

Perhaps a new friend will turn this year less solitary?

Output is expected to grow by 1.5% this year, less than the population.

They predicted that China's exports will grow 10 percent this year — less than half of last year's increase.

Growth in demand has averaged 630,000 barrels a day this year, less than half Goldman's initial forecast for 2014.

Only 2.25 million viewers watched tournaments that Woods skipped this year, less than half as many who watched tournaments that he played in.

PayPal expects to handle more than $700 million in mobile transactions this year, less than 1 percent of the money processed through PayPal.

The fund's assets were $54 billion on March 31 this year, less than half the $109 billion three years earlier, according to the fund's annual report.

The ritual visit is occurring uncommonly early this year, less than a week after Mr. Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was the Republican nominee and Mr. Bush's preferred candidate.

In other words, he is endorsing the verdict that economist Robert Heilbroner, himself a longtime socialist sympathizer, offered in the New Yorker early this year: "Less than 75 years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: Capitalism has won".

(According to a survey from earlier this year, less than 30percentt of financial planners target people under 40).

The 37-year-old attacked six women on 2 February this year - less than six weeks after a jury acquitted him of an earlier rape in which he forced his way into the victim's home.