On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

In every one of those seventeen categories, the dollar-weighted returns were less than the time-weighted returns.

发现这17种基金中的每一种,货币加权回报率,都是低于时间加权回报率的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In general, less volatile stocks have done better over time than more volatile stocks, which is somewhat inconsistent with the notion of efficient markets.

一般来说，波动小的股票在长期内比波动大的股票,表现要好，一定程度上,这和金融市场有效论的观点是相悖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Does it make sense to think we could do this in less than linear time? You know, it takes a little bit of thinking. What would it mean do I see a hand way at the back, yes please? Thank you.

你要稍微想一想，这意味着什么？,那儿是有人举手么？后面的,请你来回答吧,谢谢你，小伙子,你让我体会到我上课的价值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

What they show was rats who went through the maze and went through the maze again and again, learned far less than rats who took time aside, chilled out a little bit after a maze, had more margarita.

他们的实验表明,接连不断反复进入迷宫的老鼠，比进行一次迷宫后，稍事放松，来点小酒的老鼠，学到的少得多。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But more than half of all children will be minorities in less than half that time.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

So this line or these lines of code up here are arguably constant time steps to say if N is less than 2 in return, that it will always take maybe one step, maybe two steps, some number of fixed CPU cycles.

如果N小于2并返回,那么这些行所对应的代码,通常只需要执行一步，或者两步，具体数字与CPU周期有关。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Total time from takeoff to delivering the patients to Bagram: less than two hours.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

As for cost,Dr.Miller says patients with a heart pump spend less time in a hospital and have lower hospital costs than patients with severe heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

"It should really serve,I think, as a stimulus to us to find ways to recapture the partnership so we can join forces and fight together against the threats and challenges of the 21st century that are no less dangerous than Hitler was in his time."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14