less than half
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That is less than half the number that have participated in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Households making less than half the country’s median income would have to pay nearly two-thirds of their income to afford a new home in the first quarter, the index showed.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Their final result brought theoretical predictions and experimental measurements into agreement within less than half a standard deviation.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
In a UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by The Times last fall, Cloobeck received less than half of 1% of the support of registered voters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
The average dose received was only about 175 rads, a little less than half the dose needed to kill an average person.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
