In December less than half the number of companies announced new stock buybacks, less than half the dollar amount of new cash takeovers of already public companies were announced and insiders are also buying less than half as much as during all of 2011.
Students given canisters with red chips ate less than half the amount than those without red chips.
This ultra-portable tablet looks and feels great, measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound.
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The farmers were offered half or less than half of the outstanding money as they were told that the prices had fallen on world markets.
Yet under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Medicare actuary projects that the program will be paying physicians less than Medicaid, eventually paying less than half of Medicaid rates!
Half an hour away by train and less than half the size, Bruges felt more packed than Ghent and far more touristy, the streets leading off the Markt choked with lace and chocolate shops.
Doug Whitman received less than half of the more than four years in prison called for by federal sentencing guidelines after his August conviction on securities fraud and conspiracy charges.
Today, as a percentage of GDP, we invest less than half of what Russia does in their infrastructure, less than one-third of what Western Europe does.
November saw less than half as many visitors as the year before, and less than a third as many as November 2000.
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Then, 19-24 months after prices bottom, inventory falls by roughly 1% per month, less than half the rate of decline than in the months just after prices bottom.
Less than half would support such an idea, which is 17% less than the percentage that supported government health insurance when Bill Clinton first considered it in March of 1993.
They are higher than in England, but less than half that in Scotland and lower than in Northern Ireland.
It lasted just under four hours between charges less than half the stamina of the iPad on the same test and three hours less than the Surface RT.
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First, CONGRATULATIONS because less than half of micro-businesses survive more than four years.
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And it should also, to be fair, be pointed out that 54 in July is considerably less--it's less than half of the worst month suffered by the US in Iraq and that was in last November when 137 military personnel died.
And then there's good old fashioned panic: In a 2009 study, Jordet found that players who approach the ball less than 0.2 seconds after the referee blows the whistle succeed on less than half of their kicks compared with players who take longer (they score on 80%).
When NSS tested alternative versions of the exploit that targeted the same vulnerability in software, Symantec only spotted 53%, less than more than half of the other products tested.
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At 565 kilograms, this overgrown midget racer weighs less than half as much as a Chevrolet Corvette but boasts more than twice the horsepower.
At 1, 250 pounds, this overgrown midget racer weighs less than half as much as a Chevy Corvette but boasts more than twice the horsepower.
Warwick Bartlett, a gambling consultant, says it now makes up less than half of betting-shop profits, down from more than 90% two decades ago.
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By 2060 less than half the population would be between 15 and 65 and more than two-fifths 65 or over.
Perhaps surprisingly, more than half make less than 10 percent.
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Using the new bid adjustments, they can bid 50% higher for searches on smartphones (which indicates people are out looking to eat), 25% higher on people searching from less than a half-mile away than farther away, and 20% lower if the search is after 11 a.m.
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Slightly less than half of respondents described corporate profits as either being good or better than expected.
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America now imports less than half of the oil we use for the first time in more than a decade.
Cohabitation is common in other parts of Europe too, but in Britain couples who live together unmarried seem not to last: half split up after three or four years and a little less than half go on to marry (before perhaps divorcing later).
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Proving less popular than GMTV, ratings fell to 600, 000, less than half the number of viewers BBC Breakfast attracts.
"These are just a fraction of what we as consumers spend on soft drinks each year which is almost half a trillion dollars - the total required for species and sites is less than half of what is paid out in bonuses to bankers on Wall street's biggest investment banks, " he explained.
In its latest incarnation, Fenelon's window regulator is less than half the weight of the arm-and-sector design, 2 pounds rather than 5.
Nearly half of those polled after voting in the Democratic primary -- a little less than half -- described themselves as angry, and Dean and Kerry each got about a third of their support.
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