At present less than half are likely to be eligible for support from a welfare fund that some workers and firms pay into.
At present less than 6% of total British freight transport is accounted for by rail, compared with 15% in France and 21% in Germany.
At present, less than one percent of marine areas in the United States are designated as no-take zones.
The entitlement numbers are calculated as the present value of future promises less future taxes (at present rates) to cover them.
Part of the calculation is that at least 11% of heat (up from less than 3% at present) will come from renewable sources by 2020, and 10% of transport fuel.
And with vastly more shares outstanding, the earnings available to those shares will be far less than at present.
However, the trade-off is that at present each chip is a less powerful processor than x86-based products on the market.
Prototypes built by researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University and Philips, a Dutch electrical-goods firm, can detect a substance that is present at a concentration of less than one part in a million billion.
The above is less prevalent at present, given that the world economy is suffering from a dollar-led inflation that is driving what is limited capital from the hands of innovators and moving it toward hard assets that governments can more readily tax.
At present, mobile ads are worth less to publishers than desktop ads (which, in turn, are worth less than print and TV ads).
When people are better off and unemployment is low (it is 4.5% at present), there is simply less incentive to rob others, and perhaps less incentive even to hurt them.
At present fiscal policy is generally seen as less effective than monetary policy in steering the economy.
At present, these younger Medicare beneficiaries cost less than older beneficiaries but pay the same premiums, thereby holding down premiums for everyone else.
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Mr Romney, by contrast, has advocated raising the retirement age and indexing benefits for richer recipients, using a less generous formula than at present.
Ironically, while Singapore's restraints fostered creativity in the trio's early years, the less inhospitable political climate at present has contributed to their artistic flowering too.
One obvious objection is that the reform would be unfair, since the richer would pay less tax than they do at present.
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Reverend John Bannister, from the Save our Services campaign, said the community was concerned the redeveloped hospital would be "less than what it is at present".
At present, people in Asia and Latin America spend far less time in front of a screen, whether at home or in a cinema, than people in Europe--who in turn spend less time than Americans.
At present, four-fifths of government money goes to companies that account for less than a fifth of passenger miles.
It would be undesirable for Congress to adopt such legislation at a less difficult moment for U.S. foreign policy than the present one.
The allegation (and at present it is only an allegation, more than a rumour but a lot less than a fact) is that the company used some of those client funds to cover its own losses.
At present the EU spends about 2% of its GDP on research and development, significantly less than the US (2.8%) and Japan (over 3%).
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At the same time, the U.S. work force was less than half its present size.
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OECD's best, Portugal could spend 38% less to produce the same number of secondary-school and university graduates as at present.
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