less than half

And a recent survey by Mintel suggested less than half the nation, 48%, now drink tea at least once a day.

Recent Commonwealth Fund research found that 45% of insured working-age adults were charged for something they thought should have been free or covered by insurance, and less than half of those who reported suspected billing errors challenged them.

Importantly, among women with early bilateral oophorectomy, ever taking hormone therapy was associated with less than half the odds of Alzheimer's disease compared to those women who had not taken hormone therapy.

Her state pension is now less than half the £169.50 paid to pensioners still living in the UK.

The optical device was able to complete the key computations for a machine-learning classification task in less than half a nanosecond while achieving more than 92 percent accuracy -- performance that is on par with traditional hardware.