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Example Sentences
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A couple initially expecting to pay less than £50 for a locksmith ended up victims of a "bait-and-switch scam" which ended up costing them more than £5,000, an investigation has found.
From BBC
But by the end of 2025, oil output had fallen to about 860,000 barrels per day, less than 1% of global crude production.
From BBC
Citigroup’s Jane Fraser gave Armstrong less than a minute of her time.
About 1.3 million net new immigrants became U.S. residents from July 2024 to June 2025, less than half of the 2.7 million recorded during the same period a year prior.
From Barron's
Less than half of U.S. refineries have cokers.
From Barron's
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