We are still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and a half less each night than North Americans do.
我们仍然在这个项目的探索阶段，尽管值得注意的是，东亚人平均每晚比北美人少睡一个半小时。
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。
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。
Several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise most actively have half or less than half the chance of dying of a heart attack as those who are sedentary.
几项研究发现，与久坐不动的冠心病患者相比，积极运动的冠心病患者死于心脏病发作的几率为一半或不到一半。
Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and the United States.
巴西人每年阅读1.8本非学术书籍，这个数字不到欧洲国家和美国的一半。
Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller but improved version that will sell for less than half that price.
库兹韦尔和他的同事们正在准备一个更小但经过改进的版本，售价还不到这个价格的一半。
The new bulbs require less than half the electricity consumed by the conventional bulbs currently used to produce the same amount of light.
这种新灯泡的耗电量还不到目前用于生产相同亮度的传统灯泡的一半。
Fourteen percent of the re-employed said the pay in their new job was less than half what they earned in their previous job.
14%的再就业者表示，他们新工作的薪酬还不到他们上一份工作收入的一半。
Now she spends about $200 to $300 a month on groceries, less than half of the $650 a month that she used to lay out.
现在，她每月在食品杂货上的花费约为200至300美元，不到她以前每月650美元支出的一半。
By the 1990's, less than half of the earth's original rain forests remained, and they continued to disappear at an alarming rate every year.
到20世纪90年代，地球上原有的雨林只剩下不到一半，而且它们每年都继续以惊人的速度消失。
Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state government boards are less than 40 percent female.
哈达德和刘易斯担心，一半以上的州政府委员会中，女性的比例低于40%。
Today, American taxpayers are bailing out GM and Chrysler, foreign competitors make most of the world's best cars, and the Big Three account for less than half the cars sold in the United States.
如今，美国纳税人正在救助通用汽车和克莱斯勒，外国竞争对手制造着世界上最好的汽车，而这“三巨头”在美国的汽车销量还不到一半。
In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week.
1981年，美国儿童平均每周花在家务上的时间略少于两个半小时；到1997年，这个时间达到近6个小时。
It should be noted, however, that a donkey, which at 20,000 Tanzanian shillings costs less than a bicycle, is still an investment equal to an average household's income over half a year.
然而，应该指出的是，一头驴的费用为2万坦桑尼亚先令，比一辆自行车还便宜，但它仍然是一项投资，相当于一个普通家庭半年以上的收入。
Copied books are as good as copyrighted ones, but they don't cost much, usually less than half the price.
复印书和正版书一样好，但它们的成本并不高，通常不到一半的价格。
Scientists have found that people who sleep for less than 6 hours and a half at night are more often ill than people who sleep for 8 hours.
科学家发现，晚上睡眠少于6个半小时的人比多于8小时的人更容易生病。
Yet they have just over three children now, less than half the number their mothers had.
不过她们的平均生育率是每人三个小孩，比她们母亲的生育率的一半还要少。
The whole process generally takes some 150 milliseconds, or less than half the blink of an eye.
整个过程通常大概只有150毫秒，比一眨眼的时间的一半还要短。
Nationwide, less than half the homes (and less than a third in the poor south) are connected to public sewage systems.
全国范围内，只有不到一半的家庭(在贫困的南部地区为不到三分之一)有公共排污系统。
Caveats: 1) The correlation is only "weak tomoderate" and is true of less than half the defects studied.
警告 ：1 ）的相关性仅仅是“弱小 温和的“真正受到的缺陷的影响的不到一半。
I swapped this for an uncertain job on a magazine on less than half the salary.
后来我在一家杂志换了一份不确定的工作，薪水少了一大半。
But if the baby still weighs less than half an ounce where are all those pounds coming from?
但是如果婴儿还不足半盎司重，那些英磅的体重是从哪里来的呢？
But if the baby still weighs less than half an ounce, where are all those pounds coming from?
但是如果婴儿还不足半盎司重，那些英磅的体重是从哪里来的呢？
Afghanistan and Pakistan spent less than half of the available funds.
阿富汗和巴基斯坦支出不到可动用资金的一半。
Almost a quarter of people said that half or less than half of the information they read on sites they visited regularly was reliable.
差不多四分之一的人说，他们日常访问的网站里最多只有一半的内容是可靠的。
It works against less than half the extant threats, a level he calls "pathetic".
它只能应对不到一半的现有威胁，他将这个水平称之为“可悲的”。
By seeing out that contract, he would earn less than half the money he owes Chelsea.
直到这份合同结束，他能挣到的钱还不到他欠切尔西的一半。
The average salary of a disabled worker is less than half that of a non-disabled worker.
与身体健全的工人相比，身有残疾的工人的平均工资不到他们的一半。
Japanese firms' return on equity has long been less than half that of American and European companies.
日本公司的股本回报率早就连美国和欧洲公司的一半都还达不到了。
In addition, the TV-marketed diet provided less than half the recommended daily servings of fruit, vegetables and dairy.
除此之外，广告食品中，水果，蔬菜和乳制品的每日分量却远远不足推荐量的一半。
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