Below you will find example sentences with "earning less". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Earning Less in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: earning
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24 words

Words in this phrase

earning less

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • earning can mean: present participle and gerund of earn Frequent word
  • less can mean: comparative degree of little Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

35 or earning less than 15 1× anyone earning less than 27 1× as those earning less than two 1× california often earning less than 1 1× companies earning less than 50 1× defined as earning less than 3 1× employees are earning less 1× for families earning less than 100 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a 2018 study 1× anyone earning less 1× biden has promised 1× but let s 1× companies earning less 1× currently working poverty 1×

Common sentence endings:

1 per hour 1× 10 minute check 1× 4bn a year 1× 64 000 annually 1× are earning less 1× be paying tax 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

000 7× per 6× year 5× tax 4× households 3× cent 3× workers 3× population 2× people 2× anyone 2× currently 2× income 2×

Related phrases

less attractive less expensive less frequent less money less likely slightly less spend less becomes less less stable less successful

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around earning:

earning percent 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

earned walk earned runs earn points earn per earn money early warning

Just after it in the phrase index:

earning percent earnings growth earnings per earnings results earth day earth orbit

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

earning percent

Same ending:

slightly less spend less becomes less significantly less producing less

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "earning less" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 35 or earning less than 15, anyone earning less than 27, 000, per and year stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with less attractive, less expensive, less frequent and earning percent, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with earning less

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Extra feed means ranchers spend more money, while earning less on their cows. (13 words)

Tens of thousands of them are in California, often earning less than $1 per hour. (15 words)

Under my plan nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Currently working poverty, which is defined as earning less than $3.20 per day in purchasing power parity terms, affects more than 630 million workers, or one in five of the global working population. (34 words)

The Lib Dems said they would also raise the eligibility threshold for the allowance to those earning less than £183 a week, with the changes costing a total of £1.4bn a year. (33 words)

Looking under the hood, consumer confidence fell the most for households under 35 or earning less than $15,000 – the same group disproportionately affecting the small uptick in delinquency transition rates. (31 words)

Example sentences (20)

Through the first half of this decade, downtown’s affluent population — people earning more than $75,000 a year — grew 12 times faster than people earning less.

Anyone earning less than £27,800 in currently pays a few pounds less in income tax than their counterparts south of the border.

This year, that number fell to less than one in 10. For families earning less than $100,000, the decline was even more stark.

It could therefore prove difficult for the CIG to justify paying this to retirees when so many low-paid, full-time employees are earning less.

Looking under the hood, consumer confidence fell the most for households under 35 or earning less than $15,000 – the same group disproportionately affecting the small uptick in delinquency transition rates.

The “direct-cost benefits” will be delivered to households earning less than 60 percent of the area median income on the Vineyard.

When it comes to the pressure on the ruble, Russia, one of the world's biggest oil suppliers, is earning less from selling its oil because of Western sanctions.

Yet it also pointed out that 75 per cent of available supply was affordable for households earning less than $64,000 annually.

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But let's be clear: if you're earning less than a seventh of what an MP gets, you're not just struggling.

Martin Lewis has sent out an urgent message to workers earning less than £60,000, advising them to perform a simple '10-minute check'.

Tens of thousands of them are in California, often earning less than $1 per hour.

The government may cut tax rates for those earning less in order to boost consumption, The Indian Express has learnt.

The Lib Dems said they would also raise the eligibility threshold for the allowance to those earning less than £183 a week, with the changes costing a total of £1.4bn a year.

Under my plan nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes.

A 2018 study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center defines low-wage workers as those earning less than two-thirds of the median full-time wage in California.

Biden has promised that no one earning less than $400,000 per year will have to pay a single penny in extra taxes.

Companies earning less than $50 million will also have completed their tax rate transition from 30 per cent to 25 per cent in that year.

Currently working poverty, which is defined as earning less than $3.20 per day in purchasing power parity terms, affects more than 630 million workers, or one in five of the global working population.

Extra feed means ranchers spend more money, while earning less on their cows.

Really anyone earning less than £12,500 trying to afford their rent and bills – certainly in London – cannot be paying tax.

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