It would also depend on the building materials used since some materials are less resistant to heat than others.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Well, they still do massively, although a little bit less than they used to.

虽然相对以前有所减少,但他们仍旧大规模的按照既往行事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think it, it's less now than it used to be like, you know, 50 years ago,

不过我想现在比过去少了，我是说，比50年前少了。

我们是普林斯顿家族 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She says her students over the past several years have increasingly used less formal English in their writing.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

We call an instrument of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity less than or equal to one year--we call that a bill and they used to be the only discount bonds issued by the U.S. Government.

我们把期限小于或等于一年的,国库券品种称为短期国库券,它们曾是美国政府,唯一发行的贴现债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In addition,those using swear words said they experienced less pain than those who used control words.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A new study used a computer model to predict how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Now, less than is just, if you haven't used it before, it's just the operator you'd expect, it's comparing two things and it's going to return either true or false depending on whether the first argument is false less than the second argument.

现在，小于这个符号是，如果你之前没用过它的话，它就是你期望的那个运算符，它会比较两个独享,然后基于第一个参数是不是,小于第二个参数,返回true或者。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The scientists used a computer model to predict how just three grams less salt a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

and it's much more relevant and less pompous than it used to be.

它与过去相比更亲民，不那么傲慢了。

英国皇室的意义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is also more effective and less costly than the drugs traditionally used.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

He used less than two hundred twenty-five words to write the book.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

In many cases, therapy today costs less than it used to.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Slowly,Norman French was used less and less until it disappeared.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

"There are many explanations." "One,is we are just much less active than we used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"Now if that GM potato is effective and works then the environmental impact will be substantially less because the chemicals are not being used and there will be less fossil fuel use."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21