Example sentences of "less than they have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says .
2 The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started .
3 Students often find that their ability to produce language which is appropriate for a particular situation is less than they had expected .
4 The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 .
5 For the past decade they have been more concerned with health-care than with wages and some fear that the benefits their members will get under a national plan could be less than they have managed to negotiate .
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