Sentence examples for we stand less from inspiring English sources

And "tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for President of the United States".

"100 yards from where we stand, less than 90 days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench, until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady," industrialist Julian Carr said at the statue's dedication in 1913, according to the Daily Tar Heel.

What it lacks in breadth it makes up in proximity: we stood less than 10 feet from one of Martin's No. 5 Chevys as a team member took measurements of the car's body — close enough to read the markings on a piece of orange tape he left above the wheel wells.

The islands stand less than a couple of metres above sea level.

IN other words, today's teenagers stand less chance of making foolish decisions in the stock market down the road.

Those who hope for a fiery confrontation with Alfred's actress paramour, Miss Ricketts, stand less chance of disappointment.

Contained in two blocks five and seven storeys high, they will stand less than 300 metres from the Shard.

That means that their books will stand less chance of being stocked by the chains and not more.

Between 5 and 10percentt of the Congo Republic's 2.9 million citizens are Pygmies, many of whom stand less than 5 feet tall.

At 3.2% its net margin can stand less strain than competitor Jabil Circuits at 7%.

A big man who stoops may stand less high than another big man who is not as lengthy.