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.

Less than a minute later a torpedo hit New Orleans abreast of turret one and exploded the ship's forward ammunition magazines and aviation gasoline storage.

Less than a minute later, another Japanese aircraft, a Ki-84 Hayate (“ Frank ”) piloted by Technical Sergeant Mizunori Fukuda, appeared from the nearby airstrip at Manapla and attacked Major Jack Rittmayer in a head-on pass.

* Rate: Less than 60 beats per minute.

Less than a minute later, at 13: 43 UTC ( 20: 43 Jakarta time ), engine two surged and flamed out.

Less than a minute after takeoff, the aircraft crashed into a mudbank of the river.

Less than expected sales of the album ( more than two million ) and no further developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.

Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into US weapons technology during World War II.

Less common uses include pyrography ( burning designs into wood ) and plastic welding.

Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's sonnets, which, while printed as whole units in themselves, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme followed by a final couplet, as in the example of Sonnet 116:

Less than five minutes into the game, Los Angeles ' Derrick Jensen blocked Jeff Hayes ' punt deep in Washington territory and recovered the ball in the end zone to give the Raiders a 7-0 lead.

Less water means less gas ( steam ) to vent from the mold as metal is poured into the mold.

Less than three years later, Henry was in command of part of the English forces — he led his own army into Wales against Owain Glyndŵr and joined forces with his father to fight Harry Hotspur at Shrewsbury in 1403.

Less fortunate among the Romanovs was Grand Duke Paul Aleksandrovich, who went into exile in Paris to marry a commoner, Olga Valerianovna Karnovich in 1902.

Less tillage encourages more organic materials and crop residue to decompose back into the soil, and reduces soil compaction.

Less than two weeks later, on January 6, 1933, Barrow killed Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis when he, Parker and Jones wandered into a police trap set for another criminal.

Less than six months into his government, Fujimori broke with many of his Cambio supporters, including the second vice president and leader of the evangelical movement, Carlos García y García, and APEMIPE.

Less than two weeks later, Lincoln County was carved from it and later partitioned into Gooding ( 1913 ), Minidoka ( 1913 ), and Jerome ( 1919 ) counties.

Less well-known is Wilbur's foray into lyric writing.

Less than a century ago, Sharpsburg was divided into two sections because of a railroad track that went through the location where Kennedy Park currently sits.

Less dramatically, if the threads of the plug extend into the combustion chamber, the sharp edges of the threads act as point sources of heat which may cause preignition ; in addition, deposits which form between the exposed threads may make it difficult to remove the plugs, even damaging the threads on aluminium heads in the process of removal.

Less than a year later, in June 1986, Coluche died when his motorcycle crashed into a truck on a road in the commune of Opio in southeastern France.

Less than one month into the Hear in the Now Frontier tour, Geoff Tate became seriously ill and the band was forced to cancel concert dates for the first time.

Less than a century after the end of the Nanboku-chō Wars, peace under the relatively weak Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed by the outbreak of the Ōnin War, a roughly ten-year struggle that converted the capital of Kyoto into a battlefield and a heavily fortified city that suffered severe destruction.

Less pressure is applied to achieve desirable lines, because the burrs forming the image are more fragile than etched or engraved lines, but also because the ink rests on the plate surface, instead of pressed down into indentations.

Less vivid and picturesque in style than Karl Hase, lacking August Neander's deep and sympathetic insight into the more spiritual forces by which church life is pervaded, he excels these and all other contemporaries in the fulness and accuracy of his information.

Four of Ellis ' works have been made into films ; notably, Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000.

Less successful was the transmission of the Luna 4 probe, which ran into technical difficulties – it was also around this time that Moore famously swallowed a large fly that flew into his mouth ; both episodes were live and so Moore had to continue on regardless.