The world of advertising is obviously less bound by convention than the world of banking.
与银行业相比，广告业显然较少受常规的约束。
At the current rate of decline, many of the rain forest animals could become extinct in less than 10 years.
按照目前的下降速度，许多雨林动物不到十年就会绝种。
Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference.
学生们获得的有不到一半的钱是助学金形式的，贷款补上了不足的部分。
China's ethnic minorities constitute less than 7 percent of its total population.
中国的少数民族构成总人口的不到7%。
The council's land is now worth much less than originally hoped because of a slump in property prices.
由于地产价格的暴跌，委员会的土地目前大不如原来所希望的那么值钱了。
Analysts predict that Digital will price the new line at less than half the cost of comparable IBM mainframes.
分析家们预测迪吉多公司会将其新线产品的价格定在低于可比的IBM公司大型主机成本的一半的水平。
She got much less than she would have done if she had settled out of court.
她得到的远不如她若庭外和解得到的多。
The arithmetic was discouraging. In less than two months, they had used up six months' worth of food.
数据不容乐观。在不到两个月里，他们已经吃完了6个月的食物。
She still has the energy and sex appeal of a woman less than half her age.
她仍然有着年纪比自己小一半还多的女人的精力和性感。
Doctors were disturbed that less than 30 percent of the patients were women.
医生们对女性病人占不到30％深感不安。
He served less than a year of a five-year prison sentence, but was permanently exiled from the sport.
他5年刑期只服了1年不到，但被永远逐出了体育界。
They could not achieve their target of less than 3% inflation.
他们未能达到通货膨胀低于3%的目标。
Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.
一些能效最高的冰箱比传统型号少消耗70%的电。
The guide contains details of no less than 115 hiking routes.
这本导游指南包括多达115条徒步旅行路线的详细介绍。
Parliament sits for less than six months of the year.
议会一年的开会时间不足六个月。
The traffic was stationary due to three sets of roadwork in less than a mile.
车辆静止不动，由于不到一英里内有3处道路施工。
The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
面试并非如她想象的那样可怕。
He was less than enamoured of the music.
他不大爱好这种音乐。
Briefly, no less than nine of our agents have passed information to us.
简言之,至少已经有9位我们的代理商将信息传递给了我们。
It is less of a problem than I'd expected.
问题不像我预料的那么大。
This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
此举主要是权宜之计，而非道德问题。
The bomb must explode within less than a millionth of a second.
那枚炸弹必须在百万分之一秒内爆炸。
In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.
在一项面向120个高管团队的研究中，他发现，团队中只有不到10%的成员在人员组成问题上达成一致。
Some 40% of Americans get less than 7 hours of shut-eye on week nights.
大约40%的美国人在工作日晚上的睡眠时间不足7小时。
Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41% have taken arts classes.
在收入低于3万美元的家庭中，59%的孩子参加过体育活动，37%的孩子做过志愿者，41%的孩子上过艺术课。
Worse, this is the sole habitat of the Florida panther, and there are less than 100 of the creatures left in the wild.
更糟糕的是，这是佛罗里达豹的唯一栖息地，野生的数量不足100只。
At senior levels, only a quarter of professors are women, and black women make up less than 2% of all female academic staff.
在高级职称中，只有四分之一的教授是女性，黑人女性在所有女性学术人员中所占比例不到2%。
In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities receive 75% of the research funding.
在英国，研究是集中的：不到25%的大学获得了75%的研究经费。
The quantity of time spent together is less important than the content of that time.
在一起度过的时长不如在一起时所做的事情重要。
The quantity of time spent together is less important than the content of that time.
在一起度过的时长不如在一起时所做的事情重要。
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