Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.

Less than 60-1, but at least 6-1.

Less than three hours ago we'd decided, in Maxine Wells's pad on Cosmo, to commit a trial murder.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the hijackers stormed the cockpit and forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft.

Less than 20 miles downstream from the dam sat the city of Johnstown.

Less than a year after retiring as a player, the Blues retired number 24 in his honor on March 16, 1992.

Less than a week after the government report, a boy was walking by the River Fowey when he discovered a large cat skull.

Less than a month after his controversial instruction to the unit, Smyth was shot dead by an IRA party led by Dan " Sandow " O ' Donovan.

Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who shot himself in the head to avoid capture as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed.

Less than a year after Havana was seized, the Peace of Paris was signed by the three warring powers, ending the Seven Years ' War.

Less than 1 % of all runway models are known to make more than $ 1000 dollars USD for every fashion showcase.

Less than one-quarter of them were regicides.

Less than 0. 1 % of an oral dose is eliminated unchanged in the 24 hour urine of humans.

Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.

Less than one-half of Ethiopia ’ s towns and cities are connected to the national grid.

Less than a hundred years later, Aristotle developed an almost " biological ' theory of the development of tragedy in Athens: according to this view, the art form grew under the influence of Aeschylus, matured in the hands of Sophocles then began its precipitous decline with Euripides.

* Full Truckload, a standard logistics / transportation term: See Less than truckload

Less than 10 % of the formal labor force and less than 7 % of export revenue come from the agriculture sector.

Less than two years after its U. S release, King Kong vs. Godzilla was paid homage to by DC Comics, where the King Kong-like Titano battles the Godzilla-like Flame Dragon on the set of a monster movie.

Less than 10 % are Christians, mostly Roman Catholics.

Not numbered among the Twelve Apostles, unless he is identified as James the Less, James was nonetheless a very important figure: Paul described him as " the brother of the Lord " in Galatians 1: 19 and as one of the three " pillars of the Church " in 2: 9.

Less than 1 % of the total area is suitable for cultivation, and in the early 1990s, population distribution varied greatly among the towns of the eastern and western coastal areas, the densely populated interior oases, and the vast, almost empty deserts.

Less than 1 % of the cases are severe and result in neurological disease when the central nervous system is affected.

Less common standardized row spacings include 0. 4 inch ( 10. 16 mm ) and 0. 9 inch ( 22. 86 mm ), as well as a row spacing of 0. 3 inch, 0. 6 inch or 0. 75 inch with a 0. 07 inch ( 1. 778 mm ) lead pitch.

Less of Book 2 has stood the test of time than of Books 1 and 3, and it has been said that Book 2 was largely written on purpose to refute a theory of Descartes which had some wide acceptance before Newton's work ( and for some time after ).

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina killed 1, 836 people, Robertson implied on the September 12th broadcast of The 700 Club that the storm was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy.

Less extreme examples of much less restrictive peering requirements being set for regions in which a network peers, but does not sell services or have a significant market share, are relatively common among many networks, not just regional tier 1 networks.

Less than 1 percent of the population was either Black or African American, Asian, or Pacific Islander, and 2. 3 percent were identified as other.

Less than one month prior to August 29, 1994, Dell moved 1, 100 customer support and telephone sales employees to Round Rock.

Less than thirty days after being sworn in, Mayor Helmer quickly came through on his # 1 campaign promise to rehire police officers that were laid off by the prior administration.

Less than 1, 000 residents chose to evacuate, taking shelter at Texas A & M University, which closed its campus for the day to ease traffic problems.

Less than 1 % of pre-planned operations which followed the collateral damage estimation process resulted in collateral damage.

Less than thirty years later in 1913 Harold Murray in his History of Chess estimated there existed at least 1, 000 chess columns worldwide.

" Less than 1 hour from Montréal, in Canada ’ s beautiful Québec, sits one of the most amazing paintball sites in the world.

Less than a decade after the development of the first practical rotorcraft of any type with the autogyro, in the Soviet Union, Boris N. Yuriev and Alexei M. Cheremukhin, two aeronautical engineers working at the Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut ( TsAGI,, ), constructed and flew the TsAGI 1-EA single rotor helicopter, which used an open tubing framework, a four blade main rotor, and twin sets of 1. 8-meter ( 6-foot ) diameter anti-torque rotors ; one set of two at the nose and one set of two at the tail.

Less than 1 % of the current contents of the universe is in neutrinos, but WMAP's measurements have found, for the first time in 2008, that the data prefers the existence of a cosmic neutrino background with an effective number of neutrino flavors of 4. 4 ± 1. 5, consistent with the expectation of 3. 06.

Less volatile materials start to condense close to its center, forming 0. 1 – 1 μm dust grains that contain crystalline silicates.

An earlier mention of Walpurgis and S. Walpurgis Abend is in the 1603 edition of the Calendarium perpetuum of Johann Coler, who also refers to the following day, 1 May, as Jacobi Philippi, feast day of the apostles James the Less and Philip in the Catholic calendar.

Less than two weeks after his tirade, on March 1, 1997, the Bruins dealt him to the Washington Capitals.

Less than 10 percent of the 1, 000, 000 of each denomination issued were sold and the remainders were incinerated ( the stamps were only available for sale to the public from April 19, 1930, to June 30, 1930 ).