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.

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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.

Less than a decade later, with labor costs significantly reducing its townsite profit, the mill sold most of the homes and other buildings it owned, and Potlatch was incorporated.

Less than a decade after the first colony was established, the settlers discovered that their chosen planet was subject to periodic attack from space by the destructive Thread, a spaceborne spore that destroys organic substances on contact.

Less than a decade later, he became Chief Justice, when selected by then Taoiseach, Seán Lemass.

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 a decade later the Regional Transportation Authority was already suffering from ongoing financial problems.

Less than a decade later, the curriculum was expanded to include a four-year course of study in secondary education.

Less than a decade later, it is confirmed that the problem is not with the scientific equipment: the Sun is calculated to go nova around the year AD 3600.

Less than a decade later however, 1892, three more mergers took place and the institution became the Derby Municipal Technical College.

Less than a decade after it was founded, the university was forced to evacuate following the Mukden Incident on 18 September 1931.

Less than a decade later in 1886, the station officially became known as " New Eltham ".

Less than a decade after opening here however, following a review of its future, owners Unilever UK & Ireland decided to cease trading at the shop.

Less than a decade after developing the journal for Music Educators National Conference ( MENC ), he became its president from 1960 to 1962.

Less than a decade later, the Largo de São Roque was formed, and the beginning of the construction of new church and residences of the Society of Jesus were initiated.

Less than a decade later, the Ashleys ' slave, Elizabeth " Mum Bett " Freeman won her freedom under the new state constitution through a celebrated 1781 Massachusetts state court battle.

Less than a decade later, the Sultanate of Sulu came under the control of Spain and was forced to sign a document giving all of the Sultan's Properties in Palawan and Sulu — excluding Northern Borneo — to Spain.

Less bleak and somber than Jarmusch's earlier work, Mystery Train nevertheless retained the director's askance conception of America.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Less than a month earlier, she had announced that she was leaving Thanhouser, and she had several other film corporations willing to pick her up on contract immediately.

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 earlier, the U. N. had pulled all of its workers from the nation to coincide with sanction activities.

Less racist than the earlier thrillers ( in fact, some apology is made indirectly ) but no more convincing.

The Scotsman of January 28, 1929 said, " Less good in point of style than some of her earlier novels, The Seven Dials Mystery … maintains the author's reputation of ingenuity.

The album inspired the title of Bret Easton Ellis ' novel Imperial Bedrooms, a sequel to Ellis ' earlier novel Less Than Zero, whose title was borrowed from Costello's song " Less Than Zero ".

Less wide-ranging were Haskins ' earlier studies of the Normans, Norman Institutions ( 1918 ), which still forms the basis of our understanding of how medieval Normandy functioned, and the more popular book The Normans in European History ( 1915 ).

Less than a month earlier its CEO, Fred Goodwin, denied rumors that losses were possible.

Less trouble is attested during his office, although he did condemn James and Simon, sons of an earlier rebel named Judas of Galilee, to crucifixion.

Less significant lately, but earlier bodies would squeak and rattle, ever more as they rusted, lubricants drained, and fasteners loosened.

Less than a century earlier, Dante Alighieri also demonstrated an awareness of this fraudulence, causing him to consign all alchemists to the Inferno in his writings.

Less than a month later Richard Weigand wrote to Jane Kember, telling her that the IRS documents that had been ordered to be obtained in Guardian Order 1361, over two years earlier, had been obtained.

Less than two years earlier, Schuller coined the term " Third Stream " at a lecture at Brandeis University.

Less than a month after the Citicasters acquisition announcement, and in the wake of Fox's acquisition of the rights to National Football League games ( announced some time earlier ), News Corporation ( Fox's parent company ) made a deal with New World which moved the Fox affiliations to most of New World's stations.

Less well known is the fact that the circuit was discovered much earlier, in 1919, by Heinrich Greinacher, a Swiss physicist.

Less than two months earlier, Smith had been critical of Thomson's behaviour, calling on him to show more " responsibility ", although this was a month before Smith had been appointed as Rangers manager.