"It is less than perfect but at the moment the alternative is silence, " he said.
It is less than one year in to a ground-breaking 10-year contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
It is less than 2km from La Mariscal, a bustling entertainment district full of bars, cafes and shops.
It is less than two weeks since the Queen Mother was interred in the castle's St George's Chapel.
But, judging by the level of panic at the World Bank's H Street headquarters, it is less than perfect in practice.
If all this marks progress, it is less than meets the eye.
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That was up a respectable 16% from 2006, but it is less than half the sales that IDC figures Microsoft gets from China.
It is less than a decade since the Tory government made a mistake that Mr Brown seems to be in danger of emulating.
Despite all the tough talk, most pundits expect the Wye conference to produce some tangible achievement, even if it is less than a full accord.
While I agree that the state of the airline industry is, lets just be nice and say it is less than prosperous, I believe you are approaching it from the wrong end.
Although that is two to three times the cost of a metal detector, it is less than the price of the fancy explosive-sniffing equipment that is the main rival technology being developed for detecting metal-free mines.
It is less than ideal, but people opposed to expansion should ask themselves if they really want the alternative - loss of business to another airport in Europe that is prepared to expand, with the resulting loss of jobs, economic decline, and fall in house prices that would follow.
For men the correct QT interval is normally less than 420 milliseconds and for women it is normally less than 440 milliseconds.
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The cost of living may well be less in Kinshasa than it is in eastern Kentucky, but I can assure you it is less in eastern Kentucky than it is in New York.
Buenos Aires is still much safer than other Latin American capitals, but it is less safe than it was.
What I want to discuss is one way that the U.S. debt level is riskier than most people think, and one way it is less risky than most people think.
It is borrowing less than half what the UK government is borrowing per head according to the OECD and only about 20% more than Germany.
As an example, Montana has larger coal reserves than Europe, Africa, or South America, but it is producing less than 0.1% of that coal each year.
It is nothing less than remarkable. (No disrespect to the Canadian industry, which is also plenty impressive).
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So the importance of financial inequality is misunderstood: we may well have more of it now simply because it is less important now than it was.
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This is almost definitely less exciting than it seems, but most everything in the world is less exciting in than it seems.
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One advantage of the new technology is that it is less invasive than face recognition software.
Because the summary displays all moving events, it is less likely than software to miss something.
It is also less than 1% of the market capitalization of U.S. stocks.
But at this stage it is less important than having a clear winner.
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