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 north pole is warmer than the south and the circulation of air around it is less well contained.
北极比南极温暖，其周围的空气循环更为畅通。
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。
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。
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 interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
面试并非如她想象的那样可怕。
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。
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。
She says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.
她说，研究结果仍然表明，从那些不够突出的推荐信开始，女性在地球科学领域工作的职业生涯的一开始就处于潜在的不利位置。
Nevertheless, there is an alternative point of view that is concerned less with standards than with the facts of linguistic usage.
然而，另一种观点关注的不是标准，而是语言使用的事实。
Today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor's degree.
今天，有四分之一的大学毕业生收入低于没有学士学位的普通工人。
It is clear, for example, that the carbon cost of transporting tomatoes from Spain to the UK is less than that of producing them in the UK with additional heating and lighting.
例如，从西班牙运输西红柿到英国的碳成本明显比在英国生产西红柿的碳成本要低，后者需要额外的加热和照明。
In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course.
康奈尔大学远程教学部eCornell的调查结果显示，不到三分之一的受访者期待网络课程的质量和传统课堂一样好。
The tourist guide contains details of no less than 115 hiking routes.
这本游客指南包括不少于115条徒步路线的详细介绍。
To grow and eat a pound of potatoes sends less than one-quarter pound of carbon dioxide into the air.
种植和吃掉一磅土豆，向空气中排放的二氧化碳不超过四分之一磅。
Given their combined market value of more than $5.5 trillion, rifling through such small deals—many of them much less prominent than Wunderlist and Sunrise—might seem beside the point.
考虑到它们的总市值超过5.5万亿美元，浏览这些小交易（其中许多远不如 Wunderlist和Sunrise那么重要）可能显得无关紧要。
Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay.
许多招生官员表示，他们在每份申请（包括论文申请）上花的时间不到几分钟。
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