Sentence examples for years to less from inspiring English sources

Between 1995 and 2005 the average lease length declined from 13 years to less than 5 years.

The company says this has reduced the incidence of dropped reservations in two years to less than 1percentt from as high as 20percentt.

Although the BBC reported that Asian cornershops were on the decline back in 2002, with a 25 per cent fall over 10 years to less than 12,000, since then the market has grown.

Mr Stocker argues that these factors have "compressed the discovery process", which in Japan took 30 years, to less than ten.The Chinese are already the world's biggest shoppers abroad, but a report released on January 20th by CLSA forecasts that the number of outbound Chinese tourists will double to 200m a year by 2020 and that their spending will triple over that time.

Tokyo's house-price bubble is still deflating: after rising in real terms at an average annual pace of 12% in the 1980s, prices have fallen for 11 consecutive years to less than half their peak in 1990.Germany is suffering from a hangover following its unification boom.

As more companies run into trouble this year and next, as seems inevitable, there will be plenty of work for lawyers.Nevertheless, David Ereira, a banking lawyer at Linklaters who specialises in restructuring, says demand remains reasonably robust, but that growth will slow from the double-digit rates of recent years to less than 10% in 2008-2009.

Gigi Carnes, the curator, will show off the feathered friends, ranging in age from one year to less than one week.

And while university admissions rates rose, high school dropout rates fell, from 7 percent in the 2007-8 school year to less than 3 percent in 2009-10.

The firm revealed earlier this week that subscriptions to Star Wars: The Old Republic had dropped more than 40% since the start of the year to less than one million players.

Elsewhere in cyberspace the cost of ordinary banner ads has fallen 75% in a year, to less than $5 per 1,000 impressions (CPM: cost per thousand).

Elsewhere in cyberspace the cost of ordinary banner ads has fallen 75% in a year, to less than $5 per 1,000 impressions (cost per thousand, or CPM).